From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 6 15:01:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07131065675 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:01:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775AE8FC21 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:01:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.19]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CAE32AEEA5 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:30:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B9C2C826A for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:30:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (dslb-092-075-198-166.pools.arcor-ip.net [92.75.198.166]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCD7933A942 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:30:19 +0200 (CEST) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-04.arcor-online.net DCD7933A942 Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n66EUJ8o074456 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:30:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@lorvorc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n66EUJv1074455 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:30:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20090702084608.GA59311@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr> <200907020955.aa73037@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTP - default /etc/ntp.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:01:19 -0000 David Malone 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? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de