What is the ideal number of NTP servers to configure in ntp.conf on RHEL?

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Issue

  • Some of the servers are out of sync by up to 3 seconds, others are not out of sync at all.
  • NTP clients will not sync properly

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all versions)

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