[51479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Wed Aug 28 10:06:15 2002
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:05:41 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <87wuqbnl4m.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:55:21AM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> No.
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=3C32924F.994E1D01%40udel.edu
"Every critical organization should run at least four
low-stratum servers configured as above, so dependant servers and
clients can do the same thing. Each critical server should run NTP
symmetric mode (better yet manycast mode) with each of the other
servers at the same stratum, together with at least one peer at the
same stratume in another trusted organization."
By this criteria, a stratum 2 mesh of a bunch of top tier
routers or diverse hosts, with external influence, should be okay.
--msa
