[51469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Wed Aug 28 00:10:13 2002
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: jtodd@loligo.com (John Todd)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 04:09:36 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: mlyon@fitzharris.com (Mike Lyon), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p05100304b99161ffa53c@[172.16.2.77]> from "John Todd" at Aug 27, 2002 11:57:39 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I will go out on a limb and say that a reduction in the cost of
> stratum-1 servers will increase their use across the Internet. The
> results of such an increase would be arguably visible, as the current
> multi-layer timekeeping system seems to be more-or-less keeping
> clocks correct to the point of usefulness, at least from a
> layer-4-and-up standpoint.
The point ought to be made that a dense mesh of stratum-2
sources is likely more robust/accurate than a single
stratum-1 source...
--bill
