Bug#262037: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#262037: ntp-server: local clock causes server to drift away

[Bdale Garbee]

On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 23:03 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> In fact, I see no single mention of "127.127.1.0" in the NTP 
> documentation, so I doubt that having this section in there makes much 
> sense, at least for the default configuration.  I'm inclined to remove 
> it.

Please don't, at least not purely because you can't find documentation
about it.  I'm not sure why this is or isn't visible in the NTP
documentation tree, but you can quickly figure it out with a google
search or two.

127.127.1.0 means the normal system clock of the current machine.  It is
often configured at a lower stratum (higher stratum number) as a
fallback in case you lose network connectivity.  

Bdale