[189244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike)
Thu May 12 10:16:54 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mike <the.lists@mgm51.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 10:16:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1438308332.128734.1462980283871.JavaMail.zimbra@baylink.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 5/11/2016 11:24 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>
>
>>> Yes, and properly monitor your ntpd instances.
>>
>> And upgrade them.
>>
>> Some software distributors don’t ship modern software. if you
>> are using a distribution packaged ntpd it’s likely old and
>> difficult to determine its lineage due to how it’s packaged.
>>
>> If you’re using Redhat based systems consider using chrony
>> instead, even the new beta fedora 24 uses 4.2.6 derived code
>> vs 4.2.8
>
> We're all aware this project is underway, right?
>
> https://www.ntpsec.org/
>
Speaking of nascent time projects
http://nwtime.org/projects/ntimed/
So far, I like the overall architecture of the client/slave/master task
differentiation.
I've played around with the client in a test environment and ~it seems
to work OK~, but it looks like the project is still a bit in the future.
