I was searching for a solution but didn't find clear answer.
In my company, all our servers are syncing time with one of our private ntp servers (which are stratum 3 if I'm correct).
These stratum 3 servers are of course configured to get time of some public NTP servers (stratum 2 if i'm correct)
because of some regulations related to our business, we need to constantly be sure that our client servers don't have big offset with the stratum 2 servers.
So we are monitoring that, but the offset our client servers are seeing are only the offset with our stratum 5 servers, is there something to do to get the offset with stratum 2 servers, even if it's configured to use internal stratum 3 servers? Note that our client servers don't have internet access and the goal is to stay like that.
I was wondering if there is something to do, on our client servers, to get the offset with stratum 2. by doing a calculation? (offset client srv + offset stratum 3?) any other possibilities?
I imagine this is a concern several company have, a solution should exist
thx a lot in advance
edit : I changed the stratum number that I wrote at the beginning, at my understanding was nto correct at this time
ntpq
the the offset from the reference time, not the offset to the next higher (lower) stratum. So why do you care about stratum-2 servers?