[168878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need trusted NTP Sources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Notify Me)
Thu Feb 6 06:52:01 2014
In-Reply-To: <42E0F0207938744EB3DA31C28FC221CFA35D32BE@LCEXMBX02.cmsad.local>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:51:45 +0100
From: Notify Me <notify.sina@gmail.com>
To: Marc Storck <mstorck@voipgate.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
According to the auditors, "trusted" means
1. Universities or Research facilities (nuclear/atomic facilities,
space research (such as NASA) etc.)
2. Main country internet/telecom providers
3. Government departments
4. Satellites (using GPS module)
Which is a bit of a tall order over here.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Marc Storck <mstorck@voipgate.com> wrote:
> You may start by checking who is providing NTP services in Africa via the NTP pool. In Africa there are 27 public servers (http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/africa).
>
> But then all depends on your definition of "trusted".
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
> ________________________________________
> From: Notify Me [notify.sina@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 11:03
> To: nanog@nanog.org list; afnog@afnog.org
> Subject: Need trusted NTP Sources
>
> Hi !
>
> I'm trying to help a company I work for to pass an audit, and we've
> been told we need trusted NTP sources (RedHat doesn't cut it). Being
> located in Nigeria, Africa, I'm not very knowledgeable about trusted
> sources therein.
>
> Please can anyone help with sources that wouldn't mind letting us sync
> from them?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
