Hi On the other hand, NTP gets bothered if it has only 2 independent partners. It's quite happy with one, but two seems to bother it. Three or four seems to be a "sweet spot".
------------------- Still beating on the email problem... seems to be a router somewhere in Ohio or Illinois that's the issue. May get fixed some day, until then no incoming email. Bob ============= -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:58 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Does GPS time reception work everywhere all of thetime? In message <4c7cc2f1.3060...@orange.fr>, mike cook writes: >of references about how to do this in a belt and braces manner. How far you go (5 independent clocks should be sufficient) depends on how much >your downtime costs. Let me just add a bit of caution here: The NTP software gets confused if it has too many servers to select from. I would _never_ advice configuring more than 5 ntp servers for any machine, unless some of them deliberately are made unavailable and only used for monitoring/sanity-check. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
