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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se>
Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org, archie@whistle.com
Subject: Re: xntpd server
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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