Picking outside NTP servers (Re: NTP Issues Today)

Tue Nov 20 22:07:07 UTC 2012

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>....
> For myself, I usually pick the first three in us.pool.ntp.org, tick and tock,
> time.nist.gov, and a couple of regionally appropriate large universities.

As this week indicated, perhaps tick and tock are not sufficiently far
apart to be a good redundancy choice from a geographical failover
point of view or common mode failure point of view.

As part of a set of 8 servers as you indicate later, perhaps ok, but I
fear for people who think "Ok, I want redundancy, so... Tick and
Tock."  Which, it turns out, was significant quantities.

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-george william herbert
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