On 2009-01-11, Terje Mathisen <terje.mathi...@hda.hydro.com> wrote:

> Steve Kostecke wrote:
>
>> On 2009-01-08, Charles Brown <charles.br...@sensis.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a processor with a serial GPS on a closed private network.   
>>> If the GPS is not locked, or the GPS inputs are missing, I still    
>>> want the ntpd to serve *some* time, perhaps from the undisciplined  
>>> local clock.                                                        
>>
>> ntpd _never_ serves time "from" the Undisciplined Local Clock.
>
> Never?

Never.

The Undisciplined Clock Driver does poll the system clock
(often misleadingly referred to as the "local clock") _but_ the poll
results are discarded. So ntpd never actually serves time _from_ the
Undisciplined Local Clock.

-- 
Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

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