[32309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Fri Nov 17 02:11:33 2000
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From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>,
<Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 01:08:50 -0600
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Thus spake <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
> I'm currently composing a note to a software house, which is asking
for
> permission to list some of our NTP servers in their software's config
files.
> Before I do that, is there any "standard" for ISP's for naming their
> hosts that provide time service on ports 13, 37, or 123? Even if it's
> a list of "AOL users should try 'time.aol.com' first" rules, that
might
> be an improvement....
It used to be that "tick" and "tock" were the common aliases for a pair
of Stratum 2 NTP servers. "truechimer" was the recommended alias for a
Stratum 1 NTP server.
In recent years, people seem to have moved to "ntp1", "ntp2", etc. in
the same way they use "ns1", "ns2", etc. for DNS servers.
I personally dislike the latter trend and prefer the more colorful
names.
S
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