[168903] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need trusted NTP Sources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Feb 6 10:10:35 2014
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:10:15 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <P32Z1n00t06X0Gm0132bYS>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/6/2014 9:02 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 06/02/2014 14:57, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>> http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/PublicTimeServer000079
>
> bear in mind that due to the vagaries of african peering weirdness, the
> actual path from there to the OP's network could be over multiple satellite
> links and peered in Asia, Europe or the US. The Internet in africa can be
> ... odd.
If it was me (having made a living getting with auditors who had no idea
what they were doing) I would look for some close-by reliable (my
judgement) 1- and 2- level sources (including, usually) the router at
the ISP that I talk-to to get good service then add one or two the
auditor likes.
Larry (long time responder-to-audits that demanded that my UNIVAC and HP
hardware and software look like IBM)
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