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Date:      Sun, 5 May 1996 14:10:39 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To:        Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se>
Cc:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org, archie@whistle.com
Subject:   Re: xntpd server
Message-ID:  <199605051110.OAA00910@silver.sms.fi>
In-Reply-To: <9605051212.aa14960@lda.leissner.se>
References:  <199605042151.OAA01575@freefall.freebsd.org> <9605051212.aa14960@lda.leissner.se>

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Peter Olsson writes:
 > 
 > Seems that ntpdate (and probably also xntpd) requires a server with stratum
 > less than 16 to synchronize time with that server. The problem is that
 > all our freebsd-servers have stratum=16.
 > 
 > So, how do I either lower a servers local stratum or make the programs
 > accept servers with stratum=16? Seems to me that this requirement is there
 > for a reason, that's why I'd rather not hack the code if I can avoid it.
 > 
The easiest way is to synchronize to your providers NTP server the
other option is to get a clock to synchronize to. The third and bad
option is to make the NTP server to think it's synchronized when it's
not.

Pete



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