[chrony-users] chronyd: Can' Synchronize WHY ?

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Hi all,

I get a lot of the following chronyd messages in syslog:
 Sep  8 00:50:52 Com-PC chronyd[3240]: Selected source <WAN-IP1>
 Sep  8 00:52:01 Com-PC chronyd[3240]: Can't synchronise: no majority 
 Sep  8 01:02:18 Com-PC chronyd[3240]: Selected source <WAN-IP1>
 Sep  8 01:02:59 Com-PC chronyd[3240]: Can't synchronise: no majority 
 Sep  8 01:03:27 Com-PC chronyd[3240]: Selected source <WAN-IP1>
 Sep  8 01:04:09 Com-PC chronyd[3240]: Can't synchronise: no majority
 Sep  8 01:04:35 Com-PC chronyd[3240]: Selected source <WAN-IP1>
 Sep  8 01:05:18 Com-PC chronyd[3240]: Can't synchronise: no majority
 ...

The relevant section from chrony.conf:
....
 ; remote-WAN
 server <WAN-IP1> iburst prefer presend 5
 ; remote-WAN
 server <WAN-IP2> presend 5
 ; local-LAN
 server su-server1 maxpoll 7
 ; local-LAN
 server lu-server maxpoll 7

chronyc> sources
210 Number of sources = 4
MS Name/IP address           Stratum Poll LastRx Last sample
============================================================================
^x <WAN-IP1>                        1    6     49    +13us[ -877us] +/- 1148us
^x <WAN-IP2>                        2    6     46   +192ms[ +192ms] +/-   56ms
^x SU-Server1.<domain>       0    7    10y     +0ns[   +0ns] +/-    0ns
^x LU-Server.<domain>         0    7    10y     +0ns[   +0ns] +/-    0ns

chronyc> sourcestats
210 Number of sources = 4
Name/IP Address            NP  NR  Span  Frequency  Freq Skew  Offset  Std Dev
==============================================================================
<WAN-IP1>                      5   3   275  -2495.179   7713.381    -50ms  2452us
<WAN-IP2>                      4   3   193    568.775    561.325   +202ms  1119us
SU-Server1.<domain>.   0   0     0      0.000   2000.000     +0ns  4000ms
LU-Server.<domain>      0   0     0      0.000   2000.000     +0ns  4000ms

Both reachable time sources are DCF77 (Meinberg M300 PZF, Host "PZF1" and "PZF2"):
- <WAN-IP1> is the Meinberg PZF1 itself (-> Stratum 1)
- <WAN-IP2> is the Meinberg PZF2 run via WinXP+Meinberg NTPd package, simulating an
  intermediate time server (-> Stratum 2)

Would somebody please explain to me in "laymen's terms" why chrony cannot come to a selection ?
Note: ntpd shows the same behaviour by switching it sys_peer also quite frequently.

Thanks,
Thomas Schmid
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