Huh, I guess it's best to think of each site's NIST NTP servers as 'load-balancers' in front of a single 'application server'.
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.
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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...