[chrony-users] Why is it not selecting servers

[MUZZULINI Frank <Frank.MUZZULINI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

This one really puzzles me:

MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample              

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=x 192.168.42.1                 11   5   367    38   +63.5s[ +63.5s] +/-  121us

=x 192.168.42.2                 11   6   377    78   +58.2s[ +58.2s] +/-   42us

=x 192.168.42.3                 11   7     0   799   +79.2s[ +79.2s] +/-  110us

=x 192.168.42.4                 11   8     0   84m  +112.2s[+112.2s] +/-  112us

^x 172.16.253.1                  2  10   377  1010   +835ms[ +835ms] +/- 8853us

^x 10.26.59.11                   1   9   377   212   +836ms[ +836ms] +/-  859us

^x 10.26.59.12                   1   8   377   194   +836ms[ +836ms] +/-  909us

^x 10.26.59.13                   1   8   377    22   +836ms[ +836ms] +/-  838us

 

There are four server that agree on the correct time.

There are also two peers which are free running just like the machine itself.

Why is it not selecting one of the servers?

 

Using stratum 11 to synchronise peers amongst each other when the uplink is down is normal practice, isn’t it? (It didn’t seem to work here neither, but this may have a good reason, these are test-VMs and they may have done wild things...)

But that should not stop it from going back to the uplink servers, when they are available.

 

Note that the uplink servers are configured dynamically via DHCP, there are not listed in the initstepslew.. In fact when I restarted the daemon, it failed to start at all.

 

OS is RHEL 8.6, chrony 4.1

 

Regards,

Frank

 

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