[175698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST NTP Server List
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Oct 29 13:49:19 2014
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:48:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <54512485.60302@gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Butler" <techbb@gmail.com>
> > I'm getting a 404 error
> > http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
Add me to the list of "it works" people.
> 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.
While boulder.nist does now seem to be a redirect, tf.nist and the child
page are both working from Sprint LTE.
> I didn't memorize the federal time servers, but wasn't simply time.gov
> one of them?
time.nist.gov is the round-robin.
All this leads me to a pretty important question:
What happens if Judah Levine gets hit by a bus?
Cheers,
-- jra
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