-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/2020 13.04, Per Jessen wrote: | Carlos E. R. wrote: |> On 11/01/2020 11.07, Per Jessen wrote: |>> Carlos E. R. wrote: |>> |>>> |> And that can make ntp to abort and ntpq to fail. You have |>>> to use |> some other daemon instead with just one clock |>>> source. | | I use a setup much like James', just one source. |>>> It is our DNS an | DHCP server which is also the DCF77 |>>> receiver. | | In the last 15 years, it has not made ntp |>>> abort. |>>> |>>> You must have a setting for that, as the docs say that ntpd |>>> needs 3 peers minimum. |>> |>> I think you may want to re-read that doc. It is perfectly |>> reasonable to have only one source, why shouldn't it be? |> |> I think not, because there is no checking if that clock is |> correct. No redundancy. I mean, the clients can not know if that |> single clock is correct. | | In our setup, we have a local time server synched to DCF77, peering | with metas.ch (Swiss Federal). When you have a local time source, | you only need one. That's a crucial data point :-) Still, I'm paranoid and would define 3 sources :-D | | |> This is how my desktop sees my server: |> |> - -Isengard.valino 194.80.*.* 2 u 138 1024 177 |> 0.330 1.920 0.962 |> |> but it prefers an external reference: |> |> *85.199.*.* .GPS. 1 u 55 64 377 42.500 |> -0.859 0.163 | | A GPS clock somewhere. GB. | |> That may be an important difference, my local server is stratum |> 2, yours is 1. I don't actually care, even 3 would be good |> enough. I don't know why I have a stratum 1 reference in the |> pool. | | Simply because someone is providing it. | |> No reverse IP, network is Colocker-Data-Centre, GB. There is an |> actual physical address in "whois", but I'm not printing it |> here. | | It's all public information anyway. Still... - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXhm+jAAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1RibAJ94YzSMlJ5xJujo47XgaHWZUT4zCQCglYSMLRit123H9+hvQymUC2hpVyY= =ATg+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org