[58922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: pool.ntp.org NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Thu Jun 5 11:39:17 2003
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:37:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Curtis Maurand <curtis@maurand.com>
To: wayne <wayne@midwestcs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <x4vfvp2730.fsf@backbone.midwestcs.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
ns1.mainelinesys.com
Curtis
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, wayne wrote:
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>
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> This seems like a good time to put in a plug for the pool.ntp.org NTP
> servers. This is collection of public ntp servers provided by
> individuals and ISP's placed in a round-robin DNS system. The goal is
> to provide the general public with a list of NTP servers that they can
> use without abusing the stratum 1 servers.
>
>
> If you can provide an NTP server to the pool, it would be greatly
> appreciated. The bandwidth and CPU usage of an NTP server is quite
> low so you can easily provide NTP services to hundreds or even
> thousands of users.
>
> If you create default NTP setups and you don't have good default NTP
> servers to use, feel free to use pool.ntp.org for one or more of your
> NTP sources. (You should have at least 3 NTP sources, although using
> more than three doesn't usually help much.)
>
>
> For more information, see:
>
> http://fortytwo.ch/time/
>
>
> -wayne
>
>
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