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Re: NTP, possible solutions, and best implementation

  • From: Eliot Lear
  • Date: Thu Oct 02 17:44:21 2003

okay. two valid cases to be concerned about:

The most valid case is when we all go and buy GPS receivers from the same vendor who turns out to have a bug or a vulnerability of some form.

The other valid case is if the defense department brought down the sattelite system for some odd reason. And they seem to not have a shortage of odd reasons.

Some sort of a backup, such as PPS, or WWV* is nice, but so long as there are a few of these in the network somewhere, life should go on. Many enterprise networks run with 0 stratum 1s.

Eliot