[24450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Y2K-PT] - a better NTP test source
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Fri Jul 2 11:14:10 1999
From: Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>
To: nathan@robotics.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:12:28 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907020938560.13389-100000@skipper.robotics.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Jul 02, 1999 09:39:07 AM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/
..."happy chiming" -dave mills
>
> Where is Dave Mills page?
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Bill Manning wrote:
>
> >
> > This from Dave Mills pages on public NTP servers:
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > y2k-test.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov (132.163.135.136)
> > Location: NIST Boulder Laboratories, Boulder, Colorado
> > Synchronization: ACTS dial-up using modified lockclock algorithm, DEC Alpha/UNIX
> > Service Area: All areas
> > Access Policy: Open access.
> > This server will transmit time packets that are fast by exactly 2 years (63158400 seconds). It is intended to help users test the y2k
> > performance of their systems. The advance is set so that the year is 2 years in the future but the remainder of the time is correct. Thus the
> > message transmitted at any time on 1 November 1998 will have a time corresponding the same time of day on 1 November 2000, etc. It will
> > operate from Mid-October 1998 through the end of 1999. Contact: Judah Levine (jlevine@time.nist.gov) 303 492 7785
> > Note: This system is intended for test purposes only and it should be used with care. Although NTP itself should not have a problem handling
> > dates in the year 2000, many host operating systems cannot do so, and system crashes or data corruption are possible if the date is set using
> > this test facility.
> >
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--bill
