Paul <tik-...@bodosom.net> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Rob <nom...@example.com> wrote: > >> > Your opinion about what's reasonable is just that. You have no more >> > credibility than Bill. In fact "use the pool when my two servers are >> down" >> > <nom...@example.com> has less. >> >> I did not write that. >> > > It's called paraphrasing but fair enough -- you literally wrote (not that > long ago): > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:32 AM >>I don't like to load the pool with queries from 7 servers for a setup >>that only would need them to get the time when both my private servers >>are down. >>I could even use a "conditional" pool entry that it only starts using >>when *one or both* of the hardwired servers fail. > [emphasis mine] > > It's hard to square this with your more recent assertions and insults. But > I'm sure you'll find a way.
That is, as I wrote, for a hobby project where I want to set the time on Raspberry Pi and Cubieboard out on the internet that requires it when booting. That pool reference is only used to get any time at all (so the Cubie won't run in 2010 or the Raspberry won't get the time it was last shutdown). The normal reference is our own GPS-locked stratum 1 servers. This is not what I would deploy inside a company, as the topic of this thread is. In a company I deploy two servers and arrange for suitable monitoring. Also there usually are no devices that have no RTC at all and still have a requirement to know the date/time. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions