Can chronyd transmit broadcast NTP packets (e.g. to synchronise other computers on a private LAN)?
Yes. Starting from version 1.17, chrony has this capability. 12.3. Can chrony keep the system clock a fixed offset away from real time? I have not experimented much, but I don’t believe this would be possible as the program currently stands. 12.4. What happens if the network connection is dropped without using chronyc’s ‘offline’ command first? In this case chronyd will keep trying to access the server(s) that it thinks are online. Eventually it will decide that they are unreachable and no longer consider itself synchronised to them. If you have other computers on your LAN accessing the computer that is affected this way, they too will become ‘unsynchronised’, unless you have the ‘local’ directive set up on the master computer. The ‘auto_offline’ option to the ‘server’ entry in the chrony.conf file may be useful to avoid this situation. 13. Development 13.1. Can I get the source via git from anywhere? Yes. See the Git link on the home page for information. 14. Linux-specific issues 14.
