Re: CenturyLink

[Raymond Burkholder <ray () oneunified net>]

On 2018-12-29 7:51 a.m., Matthew Huff wrote:
> We have two stratum-1 servers synced with GPS and a PTP feed from a provider that also provides PTP to market data systems, but 
> we still have to monitor drift between system time and NIST time. Don't ask for the logic behind it, it's a regulation, 
> not a technical requirement.
On one occasion, due to bad firmware or a configuration issue, I have 
seen GPS stratum 1 diverge from NTP.  It was somewhat eye brow raising 
to the company.  My NTP monitored servers were shown to be diverging 
their GPS/NTP, but after looking at twice or thrice, it was the other 
way around.