[58956] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: pool.ntp.org NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Sat Jun 7 22:27:05 2003
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:26:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Curtis Maurand <curtis@maurand.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
Take a look at powerdns and its mysql backend. Then look at the database
that's on mysql's website re:networks and their geographical location.
I'm sure that powerdns (open source) could be modified to do the
appropriate query and return the correct ip address. much simpler.
Curtis
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Ejay Hire wrote:
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> 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.
>
> -Ejay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:curtis@maurand.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:37 AM
> To: wayne
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: pool.ntp.org NTP servers
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> ns1.mainelinesys.com
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> Curtis
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> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, wayne wrote:
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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:
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> > http://fortytwo.ch/time/
> >
> >
> > -wayne
> >
> >
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