[ntp:questions] NTP with 2 servers

William Unruh unruh at invalid.ca
Mon Feb 23 18:00:25 UTC 2015


> Thank you for your interesting answer.
> The clients where I have configured just 2 sources (1, in reality) aren't
> facing the internet, and so can only use local servers. That can be changed,
> but we would prefer to use local servers.

You can get cheap gps timers which would give you independent time.
Unless of course you are in a basement with no window access. 

> Getting those " some other Internet facing physical servers (Windows, Linux,
> BSD) whose CPUs and network I/O are not overloaded" is our problem: we just
> don't seem to find them: either our servers aren't, as you say, facing the
> internet, or aren't with the CPUs or network I/O overloaded (actually I/O in
> general, not network I/O), or may not be.
>
>
>> You will have to roll patchings across your internal time sources with
>> delays to ensure that no more than one source is out of sync at any time.
> What do you mean by that?
>
> Nuno Pereira
> G9Telecom
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