[58954] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: pool.ntp.org NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Jun 7 18:22:27 2003
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:21:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Ejay Hire <ejay.hire@isdn.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5B564A46C22FDB47A77C672D447D938C012DB885@bnaw2kmsx01.bna01.isdn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Ejay Hire wrote:
> I was thinking about the not the closest-server problem today, and
> realized this is a good application for BGP-DNS
> http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/bgpdns/ Making it possible to look at
> the reqeustor's network location and retrun the "closest" servers.
Because NTP is a UDP application, Anycast may be a more appropriate
solution for finding a "close" NTP clock. Of course, if your network is
multicast enable, NTP already supports multicast.
