Question 411 · 654 in bank
A network engineer has configured a NTP server on a Cisco ASA. The ASA has IP reachability to the NTP server and is not filtering any traffic. The show ntp association detail command indicates that the configured NTP server is unsynchronized and has a stratum of 16. What is the cause of this issue?
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Answer: C
Explanation
ONNLY RANGE FORM 0-15 , 15 is meaning not usable time server. the higher number means worse. The NTP Stratum Model The NTP Stratum model is a representation of the hierarchy of time servers in an NTP network, where the Stratum level (0-15) indicates the device's distance to the reference clock. Stratum 0 means a device is directly connected to e.g., a GPS antenna. Stratum 0 devices cannot distribute time over a network directly, though, hence they must be linked to a Stratum 1 time server that will distribute time to Stratum 2 servers or clients, and so on. The higher the Stratum number, the more the timing accuracy and stability degrades. The NTP protocol does not allow clients to accept time from a Stratum 15 device, hence Stratum 15 is the lowest NTP Stratum. A group of NTP servers at the same Stratum level (Stratum 2, for example) are considered NTP Peers to each other. NTP Servers at a higher Stratum level, on the other hand, are referred to as NTP Servers.
Source: Adapted from community discussion — amtf8888