Most chrony server configurations I've found so far are about commenting out and setting the allow directive.
I'd like several servers in my network to be synchronized to one of my 2 dedicated chrony NTP servers, even if there's no Internet, and when each chronyd is not able to synchronize to any of X.pl.pool.ntp.org servers.
According to man, local stratum directive allows chrony to serve time 'even if not synchronized to a time source' - I'm wondering if it works in the following way: as long as chronyd is able to sync to one of the X.pl.pool.ntp.org servers, everything is fine; when chronyd is not able to sync to any external source, then it still serves as a valid NTP server for the local clients thanks to local stratum directive - am I right? Isn't it like telling the clients that chrony is always healthy no matter the Internet connection status thus you can always sync to it?
Question 1: should I comment out local stratum 10 to meet my requirements?
Question 2: I'm also considering using orphan mode on my NTP servers in the following way: local stratum 10 orphan
As far as I understand, it works in the following way: let's assume my NTP servers lose connections to all X.pl.pool.ntp.org servers (I configured them to pool the same external sources) - now - thanks to local stratum 10 orphan, the clients will always sync to the server with the lowest Reference ID first (we assume my production servers are set to poll only my local NTP servers) - am I right about it?
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