NTP - default /etc/ntp.conf

[Christian Weisgerber]

David Malone <dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> (Also, we probably really want people to run in orphan mode rather
> than local clock mode, but we can wait a little longer until orphan
> mode is more commonly deployed, IMHO...)

I didn't know about orphan mode, so I had to try it right away.

$ cat /etc/ntp.conf
server 127.127.8.0 mode 14
fudge 127.127.8.0 time1 0.236
tos orphan 5
$ ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*GENERIC(0)      .DCFa.           0 l  27h   64    0    0.000   -1.255   0.793

Shouldn't ntpd have figured out by now that the clock is gone (I
unplugged it yesterday) and have switched into orphan mode?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de