[175695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST NTP Server List
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Butler)
Wed Oct 29 13:37:48 2014
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:31:49 -0500
From: Brian Butler <techbb@gmail.com>
To: Brian Christopher Raaen <mailing-lists@brianraaen.com>,
North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/29/2014 12:14 PM, Brian Christopher Raaen wrote:
> The list of NIST NTP servers is down for me, is anyone else seeing this?
> I'm getting a 404 error
> http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
I concur, that URL results in 404 for me too. Much content which had
been reliably available at http://tf.nist.gov and
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/ seems to have vanished or broken lately.
Not aware of alternate source. I prefer the NTP.org pools and other
sources anyway, for reliability.
I didn't memorize the federal time servers, but wasn't simply time.gov
one of them?
~$ ntptrace time.gov
2610:20:6005:13::35: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out
http://www.time.gov/about.html leads to
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/ which redirects to the broken
http://tf.nist.gov ... so this has got to be an error.
Maybe they're doing some rearranging and moving, starting with the
removing old part.
At least tf.nist.gov is *up*, giving 403s and 404s. Keying in on .gov
and ipv6 and related debacles, I wonder if results vary depending on
whether one uses v4 or v6...idle speculation.
Perhaps contact via http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/contact.cfm
(which, amusingly, came with a Foresee survey when I loaded it moments
ago...) or timeinfo@boulder.nist.gov <mailto:timeinfo@boulder.nist.gov>
may yield something.
