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Re: Recommendation on NTP appliances/devices


From: Rob Seastrom <rs () seastrom com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 23:46:57 -0400


Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net> writes:

Once upon a time, Rob Seastrom <rs () 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



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