Richard Laager said: > The default for maxclock is 10. This includes the "pool" entries, of > which the stock Debian configuration has four: > pool 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
> As a result, the default is to use 6 pool servers. The pool entries shouldn't be counted as servers. I don't know if refclocks are counted. There is some hysteresis in there. When starting up, I'd expect that setup to overshoot. pool DNS lookups return 4 hosts. pool 2 returns 4 each for IPv4 and IPv6. So after pool 0 it has 4, after pool 1 it has 8, and after pool 2 is has 16. Pool 3 may get 4 more if the ones from earlier work aren't "up" yet. They get probed at 1 second intervals so there is a race between DNS lookup and NTP processing. I don't know if it throws extras away or waits for them to die off. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
