[63276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NTP, possible solutions, and best implementation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Thu Oct 2 16:08:42 2003
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:07:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3F7C7AD6.4020702@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Eliot Lear wrote:
Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> Beware the single point of failure. If all your clocks come from GPS, then
> GPS is the SPOF.
Can you describe what would be involved to cause this sort of single
point of failure to fail?
Eliot
- Antenna failure
- Radio failure
- Unforseen GPS protocol issues
see:
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gpseow.htm
http://www.sustainableworld.com/y2kgps/gpseng/
The basic idea is that putting all your eggs in one basket is rarely
a good plan.
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