Recommendation on NTP appliances/devices

Fri Apr 4 03:46:57 UTC 2014

Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net> writes:

> Once upon a time, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> said:
>> Along the same lines I'm troubled by the lack of divergent sources
>> these days - everything seems slaved to GPS either directly or
>> indirectly (might be nice to have stuff out there that got its time
>> exclusively via Galileo or Glonass).
>
> Since you mentioned GLONASS: it had a 10+ hour outage yesterday,
> apparently due to a bad ephemeris upload.  Did anybody have a
> GLONASS-using NTP server experience problems?

It would be the height of arrogance to think that this couldn't happen to GPS.

I want redundancy.

-r