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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


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