Re: chrony not switching to stratum 10 after loss of references

Miroslav Lichvar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.time.chrony.user
Message-ID <ZIq8vY2RlMnPvxyk@localhost>
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 08:50:28PM +0000, Charbonneau, André wrote:
> Root delay      : 0.000000001 seconds
> Root dispersion : 0.003475379 seconds
> Update interval : 16.0 seconds
> Leap status     : Normal
> 
> I've also confirmed that it still happily serves time at stratum 1 level if I query it from another system (using ntpdate tool for example from another system).
> 
> Is this normal and expected?  I was expecting chrony to fallback to stratum 10 but this is not what is happening.

It's expected in your configuration. The default threshold for
switching to the local mode is 1 second of root distance
(root delay / 2 + root dispersion).

You would need to specify a smaller threshold, e.g.
local stratum 10 distance 0.003

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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