[168957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need trusted NTP Sources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Fri Feb 7 10:27:13 2014
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 07:23:22 -0800
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20140207113525.GA13919@pob.ytti.fi>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/7/2014 3:35 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> 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.
>
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is
never sure."
