[70670] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ntpd config tech note redux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri May 21 00:57:04 2004
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 07:56:21 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20040521015400.CB83C7B44@berkshire.research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>I'll add my .02 currency units: if you can, make one of your ntp peers
>XX.pool.ntp.org, where XX is your country code. Obviously, not all
>values of XX work -- among the surprising failures are il.pool.ntp.org,
>jp.pool.ntp.org, and kr.pool.ntp.org -- but it's worth looking for your
>country or a neighboring one. This will give you a selection among
>many different choices, if you aren't concerned with picking a specific
>one (say, for security reasons).
>
>
>
I seem to get always the same answer, even from the authorative servers
of the zone;
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ntp.pool.org. 2H IN CNAME sd3.mailbank.com.
sd3.mailbank.com. 30M IN A 64.15.175.6
Pete