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Vosporos • yesterday at 11:46 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

One (amongst many) NTP server going down creates less issues than an NTP server spreading wrong time.

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macintux • yesterday at 11:56 AM

General rule of thumb: a misbehaving/slow server in any well-architected distributed system is vastly worse than a dead server.

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PunchyHamster • yesterday at 12:39 PM

technically if you have 3 or more sources that would be caught; NTP protocol was designed for that eventuality

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