It's probably worth noting that GPS isn't directly dependent on the functionality of tick and tock... Tick and tock were unreachable for about 8 hours or so back around the 4th of July after the windstorms in that area too. It's good practice to sync to multiple timeservers to avoid single points of failure. -Bill
On Nov 20, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
There are what appears to be a statistically significant number of reports this week of possible anomalies with NTP timekeeping in various parts of the net.
Just to slightly correct and focus this - other than an unconfirmed GPS report, everything I have seen reported so far either publicly or privately confirmed to be syncing with the USNO servers tick or tock when problems manifested. This appears - so far - to have been of limited scope. Widespread, because of tick and tock's popularity and (as Leo Bicknell noted elsewhere) widespread use of too few upstream servers in local configurations. But not widespread among the stratum 1 servers set.
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