[63292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NTP, possible solutions, and best implementation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliot Lear)
Thu Oct 2 17:42:23 2003
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:41:47 -0700
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
To: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310021306360.27751@catbert.rellim.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
okay. two valid cases to be concerned about:
The most valid case is when we all go and buy GPS receivers from the
same vendor who turns out to have a bug or a vulnerability of some form.
The other valid case is if the defense department brought down the
sattelite system for some odd reason. And they seem to not have a
shortage of odd reasons.
Some sort of a backup, such as PPS, or WWV* is nice, but so long as
there are a few of these in the network somewhere, life should go on.
Many enterprise networks run with 0 stratum 1s.
Eliot
