[168950] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need trusted NTP Sources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Fri Feb 7 06:35:47 2014
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:35:25 +0200
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <13052302.7446.1391739261269.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
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On (2014-02-06 21:14 -0500), Jay Ashworth wrote:
> My usual practice is to set up two in house servers, each of which
> talks to:
>
> And then point everyone in house to both of them, assuming they accept
> multiple server names.
Two is worst possible amount of NTP servers to have. Either one fails and your
timing is wrong, because you cannot vote false ticker. And chance of either of
two failing is higher than one specific of them.
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++ytti
