[189218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed May 11 11:36:38 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 15:36:34 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <D99B1FD3-5ED2-46BE-AE10-A09BE410C508@beckman.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mel Beckman" <mel@beckman.org>
> Read deeper into the thread and you'll find where I sourced inexpensive RF-based
> NTP servers using CDMA, GSM, and even WWV. All radically different technologies
> that are unlikely to have common failure modes. But yes, buying different
> brands can't hurt either.
CDMA and GSM are false diversity: both network types nodes *get their time*
from GPS, so far as I know.
Cheers,
-- jra
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