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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: pool.ntp.org NTP servers
I was thinking about the not the closest-server problem today, and realized this is a good application for BGP-DNS http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/bgpdns/ Making it possible to look at the reqeustor's network location and retrun the "closest" servers. -Ejay -----Original Message----- From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:37 AM To: wayne Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: pool.ntp.org NTP servers ns1.mainelinesys.com Curtis On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, wayne wrote: > > > > This seems like a good time to put in a plug for the pool.ntp.org NTP > servers. This is collection of public ntp servers provided by > individuals and ISP's placed in a round-robin DNS system. The goal is > to provide the general public with a list of NTP servers that they can > use without abusing the stratum 1 servers. > > > If you can provide an NTP server to the pool, it would be greatly > appreciated. The bandwidth and CPU usage of an NTP server is quite > low so you can easily provide NTP services to hundreds or even > thousands of users. > > If you create default NTP setups and you don't have good default NTP > servers to use, feel free to use pool.ntp.org for one or more of your > NTP sources. (You should have at least 3 NTP sources, although using > more than three doesn't usually help much.) > > > For more information, see: > > http://fortytwo.ch/time/ > > > -wayne > > -- -- Curtis Maurand mailto:[email protected] http://www.maurand.com
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