Need trusted NTP Sources

Sun Feb 9 20:45:19 UTC 2014

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Saku Ytti" <saku at ytti.fi>

> > That's only true if the two devices have common failure modes,
> > though, is it not?
> 
> No, we can assume arbitrary fault which causes NTP to output bad time. With
> two NTP servers it's more likely that any one of them will start doing
> that than with one alone. And if any of the two start doing it, you don't
> know which one.

Hey, waitaminnit!  I saw you palm that card.  :-)

If I'm locked to 2 coherent upstreams and one goes insane, I'm going to
know which one it is, because the other one will still match what I already
have running, no?

Or do I understand NTP less well than I think?

Cheres,
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