Re: [ntp:questions] Isolated Network Drift Problem

2008-11-21 Thread David Woolley
Cal Webster wrote: > Our NTP servers are slowly loosing time. All are in nearly perfect sync > but collectively drift backwards over time. Is there a way to apply a > bias to the drift calculations? ntp.drift on the one machine with the local clock configured. > > We had to disconnect from the In

Re: [ntp:questions] network is unreachable.

2008-11-21 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Varrun Ashok schrieb: > [...] > after the kernel i created booted i get the following message: > 1) > NET: Registered protocol family 10 > lo:disabled privacy extensions > libisc/ifiter_ioctl.c 567 REQUIRE (iter->pos<(unsigned int) > iter->ifc.ifc_len)failed > 2)then after logging as root i

Re: [ntp:questions] Isolated Network Drift Problem

2008-11-21 Thread Unruh
David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Cal Webster wrote: >> Our NTP servers are slowly loosing time. All are in nearly perfect sync >> but collectively drift backwards over time. Is there a way to apply a >> bias to the drift calculations? >ntp.drift on the one machine with the local clock c

Re: [ntp:questions] Isolated Network Drift Problem

2008-11-21 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-11-21, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any pure clients should not have a local clock. That is universally > true, not just for time islands. For the remaining machines, you should > either specify a clear hieararchy, with steps of two in the local > clock stratum between

Re: [ntp:questions] Isolated Network Drift Problem

2008-11-21 Thread David Woolley
Unruh wrote: > > ??? Why would they be that high? The clients are surely all getting their > time from that one master, and their stratum should be one higher. Also who > cares what stratum he declares his master to be. If he reallynever goes to > the net, he could make it stratum 1 for all ntp c