[mythtv-users] Zotac ION + NTP clock too fast?

[Matt W]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:00 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> I think it's because of what happens if you're using that machine as an NTP
> server as well as a client.  By putting in a LOCAL clock with a really high
> stratum number, if the machine loses its other peers, its overall stratum
> number goes high and other hosts know not rely on it too heavily.

Yeah I s'pose you're right.  By shoving it up to 10 you'd hope other
peers would cheerily ignore it, just weird to think if you roll out
100 of these boxes they'd all be pointing to each other as peers :-)
Luckily the ntp pool project should help prevent those scenarios.