Fun fact: Per [0], if you provide enough servers, the NTP client can detect a "falseticker" that is not providing accurate time. The number of NTP servers required is `2n+1` where `n≥1`.
Of course, that requires each NTP server use its own time source.
So, note for me: If I want NTP redundancy and I'm using NIST's servers, pick one NTP server from each of NTP's three sites.
[0]: https://support.ntp.org/Support/SelectingOffsiteNTPServers#U...
System robustness hazard that won't tolerate just querying time.nist.gov at 4-sec or greater intervals?
From the cow's mouth[1]:
>> The global address time.nist.gov is resolved to all of the server addresses below in a round-robin sequence to equalize the load across all of the servers.
The email explains why they haven't shut down, cause haven't hit the threshold. And talks about maybe shutting them down manually.
They may not operate redundant clocks at a single site, but ITS redundancy posture[1] doesn't look bad at all:
>> Servers at the Boulder and WWV/Ft. Collins campuses are independent and unaffected.
Is this sarcasm? I can't tell.
Per the email:
> Servers at the Boulder and WWV/Ft. Collins campuses are independent and unaffected.
