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From: | Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: | Re: [gpsd-dev] Clarifications needed for the time-service HOWTO |
Date: | Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:55:09 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Harlan Stenn <address@hidden>: > If "at least two others" means "the one already on this machine and at > least 2 outside sources" that's great. ntpd needs a majority clique to > sync, and if there are only 2 time sources and they disagree then ntpd > won't know who to listen to. > > H Gary has upgraded that recommended number to 4. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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