[time-nuts] Does GPS time reception work everywhere all of the time?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4C7CC2F1.3060604 at 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.

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