Re: Best/proper use of orphan mode

Carsten Finis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.time.chrony.user
Message-ID <MW5PR20MB45218330D1D0330F95F184DBBEC0A@MW5PR20MB4521.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
> It's supposed to end up in a stable state using only one source, but
> it might take a long time. You can speed it up by increasing
> maxclockerror and reducing the orphan distance.
>
> If that doesn't work for you, please post output from chronyc sources
> and selectdata.

Here's the situation 24 hours after losing the connection to the external NTP server. Host 1 doesn't want to let loose of that server.
Indeed, that is a stable configuration (if it stays like this), but the actual orphan feature hasn't kicked in - no orphan stratum anywhere.

Host 1
S Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
^* skinner.dev.de.xxxxxxxxxx     5   7     0   24h    -46us[  -53us] +/-  131ms
^? cf-lb01-rh7                   0   6   377     -     +0ns[   +0ns] +/-    0ns
^- 10.21.2.182                   7   6   377   23h   +502us[ +502us] +/-  124ms
^- 10.21.2.183                   7   6   377   23h   +147us[ +147us] +/-  125ms
S Name/IP Address        Auth COpts EOpts Last Score     Interval  Leap
=======================================================================
* skinner.dev.de.xxxxxxxxxx N -P--- -P---  24h   1.0  -209ms  +209ms  N
M cf-lb01-rh7               N ----- -----    0   1.0    +0ns    +0ns  N
P 10.21.2.182               N ----- -----  23h   1.0  -189ms  +209ms  N
P 10.21.2.183               N ----- -----  23h   1.0  -199ms  +205ms  N

Host 2
MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
^? skinner.dev.de.xxxxxxxxxx     5   8     0   24h    -64us[ -104us] +/-  129ms
^* 10.21.2.181                   6   6   377    36    +17us[  +15us] +/-  211ms
^? cf-lb02-rh7                   0   6   377     -     +0ns[   +0ns] +/-    0ns
^+ 10.21.2.183                   7   6   377    60    -78us[  -79us] +/-  207ms
S Name/IP Address        Auth COpts EOpts Last Score     Interval  Leap
=======================================================================
S skinner.dev.de.xxxxxxxxxx N -P--- -P---  24h   1.0  -232ms  +250ms  N
* 10.21.2.181               N ----- -----    0   1.0  -207ms  +207ms  N
M cf-lb02-rh7               N ----- -----    0   1.0    +0ns    +0ns  N
+ 10.21.2.183               N ----- -----   24   1.0  -203ms  +202ms  N

Host 3
MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
^? skinner.dev.de.xxxxxxxxxx     5   9     0   24h    +21us[  +80us] +/-  126ms
^* 10.21.2.181                   6   6   377    59    +33us[  +32us] +/-  211ms
^+ 10.21.2.182                   7   6   377    43    -17us[  -17us] +/-  207ms
^? cf-lb03-rh7                   0   6   377     -     +0ns[   +0ns] +/-    0ns
S Name/IP Address        Auth COpts EOpts Last Score     Interval  Leap
=======================================================================
S skinner.dev.de.xxxxxxxxxx N -P--- -P---  24h   1.0  -216ms  +229ms  N
* 10.21.2.181               N ----- -----   15   1.0  -207ms  +207ms  N
+ 10.21.2.182               N ----- -----    0   1.0  -202ms  +202ms  N
M cf-lb03-rh7               N ----- -----    0   1.0    +0ns    +0ns  N

Thanks,
  Carsten
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