Need trusted NTP Sources
Jimmy Hess
mysidia at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 12:38:06 UTC 2014
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2014-02-06 21:14 -0500), Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
> > My usual practice is to set up two in house servers, each of which
> > talks to:
> Two is worst possible amount of NTP servers to have. Either one fails and
> your timing is wrong, because you cannot vote false ticker. And chance of
> either of
> two failing is higher than one specific of them.
>
+1 to having at least 3 NTP servers.
Because complete outage is only one kind of failure.
Don't forget poor performance due to high latency, or
Server X emitting corrupted or inaccurate data
--
-JH
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