----- Original Message ----- > From: "Saku Ytti" <s...@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 j...@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