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From: "Saku Ytti" <saku@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, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274