Kay Hayen wrote: > > They are owned by the same people who then own installations of our system, > so > that wouldn't be an issue.
You will still have to ensure that they do not enable kiss of death on those servers. Also you should make sure that they don't try to use w32time, especially older versions, and if your timing requirements are tighter than a few tens of milliseconds, that there are no Windows machines involved. > > When I say "restrict" it is our own system that decides that ">x ms" offset > is > too bad and prevents ntpd from talking to it any further with a "restrict" > command. If all 2 servers of an "other host" are "restricted", it will crash > the software. You are overriding NTP's selection algorithms. Effectively you are no longer running NTP. > > All of that is own our making and control. > > Regarding the poll values. I am not sure why we do it the external NTPs as > well. Could be that the dispersion can be brought down quicker this way You are misusing "dispersion". Dispersion is an estimate of worst case drift and reading resolution errors. > on "entry hosts" and allow the "other hosts" to synchronize faster with them, > or could be that we never considered it worthwhile to optimize it away. > Well yes, but between 2 queries from the same client the ntpd will have made > a > certain adjustment. If the client gets to know this value, it will have to ntpd is making adjustments at least every 4 seconds (old versions) and as often as every clock tick. It does this by adjusting frequency not by directly adjusting time. > blame its own clock for that extra difference and assign it dispersion that > it doesn't deserve. >> > That's a different model and I think Mr. Unruh already clarified to me that > it's not the model that NTP uses. I think "my" model has little experience or > qualification behind it. Current NTP on the other hand is proven. > Firstly, I don't know any time synchronisation software that doesn't have a large step by step element. More importantly, if you are going to micro-manage ntpd, you need a deep understanding of how it works to know what the statistics really mean and know what are realistic expectations. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
