Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe)

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

On 8/5/23 21:26, Mel Beckman wrote:

> Mark,
>
> You might consider setting up your own GPS-based NTP network. Commercial Ethernet GPS-sourced NTP servers, such as the 
> Time Machines, TM1000A, are as little as $400. Or you can roll your own using a Raspberry Pi or similar nano computer 
> with a GPS module and antenna. We use these exclusively in data centers now rather than depending on Internet NTP 
> servers, primarily for security, because financial transactions in e-commerce can be sensitive to false time 
> information. There are also a variety of NTP-based Internet attacks, so if you can block NTP at your border you’ve 
> eliminated another attack surface.

To be honest, we have decent resiliency across the network to weather 
issues such as these. While going the GPS route is not a bad idea, I 
have more pressing problems to fix right now.

All that said, the issue seems to have corrected itself re: the Tata 
path (even if it's still the same path).

Appreciate all the feedback and support. Thanks.

Mark.