Cal Webster wrote: > > None of our client machines use the local clock. The servers configured > like this are the other 3 "peer" NTP servers. Don't they need some type > of time reference if the master server becomes unreachable?
No. PCs keep time even without NTP installed. ntpd disciplines the local clock. If you use the local clock as your reference, it will always read exactly the same as the local clock being disciplined, so no corrections will ever be made. You have fallen for an urban legend! The Local Clock driver is a fiction used to allow an unsynchronised machine to appear synchronised to downstream machines. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
