Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Sorry, it's the "orthogonal" part that's bothering me. My dictionary > says "pertaining to or composed of right angles". It's frequently used > as a buzz word but seems to be without content in the context of NTP.
It also means "independent" or "uncorrelated". For example see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal#Computer_science So Uwe's point is correct: designing an NTP hierarchy to be a failsafe system (up to a point) does not preclude it from also reporting failures even if they are not (yet) service-affecting. In fact, (and Uwe also made that point in his RAID analogy) _not_ reporting failures gives the administrator a false sense of security. So +1: ntpd should report failures to syslog. The question is what sorts of things it should be reporting. Things that I can think of: - synchronisation not achieved within the expected period after startup; - stratum higher than expected - smaller than expected number of servers reachable - the set of reachable servers consists of exactly two servers of equal stratum (which is the worst case) Cheers, Jan _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
