[170705] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommendation on NTP appliances/devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Thu Apr 3 23:47:20 2014
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 23:46:57 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20140404023226.GA4063@cmadams.net> (Chris Adams's message of
"Thu, 3 Apr 2014 21:32:26 -0500")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> writes:
> Once upon a time, Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> said:
>> Along the same lines I'm troubled by the lack of divergent sources
>> these days - everything seems slaved to GPS either directly or
>> indirectly (might be nice to have stuff out there that got its time
>> exclusively via Galileo or Glonass).
>
> Since you mentioned GLONASS: it had a 10+ hour outage yesterday,
> apparently due to a bad ephemeris upload. Did anybody have a
> GLONASS-using NTP server experience problems?
It would be the height of arrogance to think that this couldn't happen to GPS.
I want redundancy.
-r
