[131460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NTP Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hotze)
Mon Oct 25 01:16:40 2010
From: Martin Hotze <M.Hotze@hotze.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:16:27 +0000
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4811.1287944305.813.nanog@nanog.org>
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> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:18:18 -0400
> From: David Andersen <dga@cs.cmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: NTP Server
(...)
> If you find yourself needing really precise time with good guarantees,
> you're not just talking about buying one GPS unit -- you can easily go
> down a rathole of finding multiple units with good holdover
And you have to trust one single source: the US military.
Having my network outside the US and having read NOTAMs (notice to airmen) =
while preparing a flight stating that due to military ops the GPS signal wa=
s screwed up in that area I would not rely on GPS as my single NTP source f=
or my network.
#m
