On 2008-05-02, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not very familiar with orphan mode, but I think even orphan mode > uses an average of the time from the adjacent nodes, and doesn't > identify a single correct node. Even if it does, it will only select > from its immediate neighbours.
Orphan mode provides a means for a group of systems to automomously elect a leader in the event that no real time sources are reachable. The leader is selected based on a random value which is generated by each ntpd at start-up. Each node participating in an "Orphan Group" must be configured to be a server to that entire group _and_ as a client of every other node in the group. This is why I frequently refer to an "Orphan Mesh" because a _mesh_ of nodes is what you are, in fact, constructing. An orphan mesh may be assembled using any mode: broadcast, multicast, unicast, or manycast. -- Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
