Even more than 2 sources may result in falseticker state in rhel9.

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Issue

  • Even more than 2 sources maybe result in falseticker state in rhel9.
  • In RHEL9, chronyd may detect and report falsetickers, which are NTP servers providing significantly inaccurate time. The message appears in /var/log/messages as: chronyd[xxxxx]: Detected falseticker .

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • chrony

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