-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Oct 2009 at 12:11, Kiss Gábor wrote:
> > > > Don't worry about it. The stratum is really just there for > > > > loop-detection (your server will be $who_you_sync_with + 1). > > > > The important measures for your time keeping performance are > > > > offset/jitter and availability. > > > > > > Eeeerrr... are you sure? AFAIK the selection algorithm prefers the > > > lowest possible stratum refclock. > > > > No, the selection algorithm doesn't care. Why would it? Just > > because my computer claims to a stratum 1 server synced via RND > > doesn't mean it knows what time it is. > > You can easily convince me of this if you present a screenshot. :-) > > Run "ntpq -p" on several hosts and find a "*" marked refclock that has > not the lowest stratum level of currently available servers. I was hoping to prove you wrong :-) Some of pool servers are stratum 1 so I just checked status logging here (at 30 min intervals) and see 2605 entries for a stratum 1 server all having "*" out of total of 2605 entries for stratum 1. It just happens that particular site is also short delay and possibly using same hosting location as my isp. David - -- David Lord <[email protected]> <ftp://ftp.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/lg_david.pkr> <http://www.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/lg_david.pkr> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 -- QDPGP 2.65 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBSt2Yaq2RmIodDo7KEQIGLwCdFxKqgRYsymShNyOZhQqYiz5ARnEAoIF3 63g1vC1rMvp3nq98tW6SJxCj =6GDA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
