Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-08-15, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2013-08-14, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote: The time server specified in each of those lines is the one which is currently selected as the sys_peer. But as I understand it, it is simply one of the systems which is not a false ticker,

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-15 Thread unruh
On 2013-08-15, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote: On 2013-08-15, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2013-08-14, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote: The time server specified in each of those lines is the one which is currently selected as the sys_peer. But as I understand it, it is

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-15 Thread David Woolley
On 14/08/13 16:03, Nils Brubaker wrote: all of whose error intervals overlap and uses the average of those times as the time to send on the the ntp engine. The others are false tickers. It estimates the error by looking at the round trip time and the other machine's estimate of its own max

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-08-15, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2013-08-15, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote: [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 42 lines snipped |=---] The mitigation algorithm proceeds in three steps in turn. 1. If there are no survivors, the modem driver becomes the only

[ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-14 Thread Nils Brubaker
For ntpd 4.2.4p6 running on Linux, is there any significance to the order of servers in the ntp.conf file? Will ntpd synchronize with the first available/good time server in the list? Thanks, Nils Brubaker ___ questions mailing list

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-14 Thread unruh
On 2013-08-13, Nils Brubaker n...@us.ibm.com wrote: For ntpd 4.2.4p6 running on Linux, is there any significance to the order of servers in the ntp.conf file? Will ntpd synchronize with the first available/good time server in the list? No, no. ntp gets the data from all the servers. It then

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-14 Thread Nils Brubaker
Thank you, un...@invalid.ca, for your response to my question. Couple follow-up questions. My ntp.conf running on Linux has 4 servers defined: server 0.rhel.pool.ntp.org server 1.rhel.pool.ntp.org server 2.rhel.pool.ntp.org These are public servers from the NTP pool project. In my

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-14 Thread David Taylor
On 13/08/2013 20:52, Nils Brubaker wrote: For ntpd 4.2.4p6 running on Linux, is there any significance to the order of servers in the ntp.conf file? Will ntpd synchronize with the first available/good time server in the list? Thanks, Nils Brubaker The order you list likely determines the

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-14 Thread Brian Utterback
I don't understand how you get the idea that your system is synchronizing with only one server when the messages you posted show it synchronizing with 6 servers. Do you mean that it is synchronizing with one server at a time? That is what it is supposed to do. There is a combining step in the

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-14 Thread unruh
On 2013-08-14, Nils Brubaker n...@us.ibm.com wrote: Thank you, un...@invalid.ca, for your response to my question. Couple follow-up questions. My ntp.conf running on Linux has 4 servers defined: server 0.rhel.pool.ntp.org server 1.rhel.pool.ntp.org server 2.rhel.pool.ntp.org These are

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-14 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-08-14, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2013-08-14, Nils Brubaker n...@us.ibm.com wrote: Aug 8 15:01:00 yellowstone ntpd[3254]: synchronized to 50.116.55.161, stratum 2 Aug 8 16:09:20 yellowstone ntpd[3254]: synchronized to 38.101.77.21, stratum 2 These log messages suggest