Re: Fwd: FW: NIST NTP Server List

2014-11-03 Thread Mark Andrews
> Hello - can you tell me what this pertains to, or if I can help? > > Andrew Novick > NIST > > > -Original Message- > From: Mark Andrews [mailto:ma...@isc.org] > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:22 PM > To: Pete Carah > Cc: nanog@nanog.org; do-web

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <5452d146.4080...@altadena.net>, Pete Carah writes: > On 10/30/2014 06:27 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > IPv6 is production. Report the problem. > > > Sorry for reporting it here, but there seems to be more than one problem > (the link resulting from clicking on "nist time". What does re

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-30 Thread Pete Carah
On 10/30/2014 06:27 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > IPv6 is production. Report the problem. > Sorry for reporting it here, but there seems to be more than one problem (the link resulting from clicking on "nist time". I get the nist front page fine on v6, then click on the time link and get a 404 lookin

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-30 Thread Mark Andrews
IPv6 is production. Report the problem. In message , Javier J writes: > Either is alcatel-lucent.com for the past 2 days I noticed. Ipv6 version of > their site broken. > On Oct 30, 2014 1:18 PM, "Brian Christopher Raaen" < > mailing-li...@brianraaen.com> wrote: > > > It is now working over

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-30 Thread Javier J
Either is alcatel-lucent.com for the past 2 days I noticed. Ipv6 version of their site broken. On Oct 30, 2014 1:18 PM, "Brian Christopher Raaen" < mailing-li...@brianraaen.com> wrote: > It is now working over IPv6 > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Brian Christopher Raaen < > mailing-li...@br

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-30 Thread Brian Christopher Raaen
It is now working over IPv6 On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Brian Christopher Raaen < mailing-li...@brianraaen.com> wrote: > Still acting up for me this morning. > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 10/29/14 12:36 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 29,

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-30 Thread Brian Christopher Raaen
Still acting up for me this morning. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 10/29/14 12:36 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Doug Barton >> wrote: >> >>> Happy Eyeballs has nothing to do with it. This is a server >>> misconfiguration >>> plai

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/29/14 12:36 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Doug Barton wrote: Happy Eyeballs has nothing to do with it. This is a server misconfiguration plain and simple. I meant that it seems that v4 is broken, but v6 is not. Other way around.

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Brian Christopher Raaen
I disabled IPv6 on my machine and was able to pull it up, reenable IPv6 and I start getting 404's. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > > Happy Eyeballs has nothing to do with it. This is a server > misconfiguration

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > Happy Eyeballs has nothing to do with it. This is a server misconfiguration > plain and simple. > I meant that it seems that v4 is broken, but v6 is not. so sure, it's a server thing, but he's seeing different results maybe as a side effect o

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Doug Barton
Happy Eyeballs has nothing to do with it. This is a server misconfiguration plain and simple. Doug On 10/29/14 11:30 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Brian Christopher Raaen wrote: That is interesting as the computer I am using is on dual-stack, and I am proba

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Brian Christopher Raaen wrote: > That is interesting as the computer I am using is on dual-stack, and I am > probably using IPv6 to reach it. > "happy eyeballs" > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Stefan Bethke wrote: > >> Seems to be working over IPv4, not over

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Doug Barton
Also getting a 404 over IPv6. You can verify what transport we're using in Firefox using the SixorNot plugin. hth, Doug

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Brian Christopher Raaen
That is interesting as the computer I am using is on dual-stack, and I am probably using IPv6 to reach it. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Stefan Bethke wrote: > Seems to be working over IPv4, not over IPv6. > > $ curl -6 http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi 2>/dev/null | head -5 > > > 404 N

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Stefan Bethke
Seems to be working over IPv4, not over IPv6. $ curl -6 http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi 2>/dev/null | head -5 404 Not Found Not Found $ curl -4 http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi 2>/dev/null | head -5 NIST Internet Time Service > Am 29.10.2

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Stefan Bethke
> Am 29.10.2014 um 18:14 schrieb Brian Christopher Raaen > : > > The list of NIST NTP servers is down for me, is anyone else seeing this? > I'm getting a 404 error > http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi 404 from Kabel Deutschland reaching tf.nist.gov via AS1273, a small hoster in Hamburg, Germ

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Brian Butler" > > I'm getting a 404 error > > http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi Add me to the list of "it works" people. > I concur, that URL results in 404 for me too. Much content which had > been reliably available at http://tf.nist.gov and > http://

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Robert Duffy
It's up from Vancouver, Canada. No 404 from here. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Stuart Sheldon wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Yeah, it looks like it's down > > stu > > > > On 10/29/2014 10:14 AM, Brian Christopher Raaen wrote: > > The list of NIST NTP servers

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Brian Butler
On 10/29/2014 12:14 PM, Brian Christopher Raaen wrote: > The list of NIST NTP servers is down for me, is anyone else seeing this? > I'm getting a 404 error > http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi I concur, that URL results in 404 for me too. Much content which had been reliably available at http

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Brian Christopher Raaen
I'm still getting a 404. I am using a Windstream backbone, is this maybe path/server specific. Here is a dig. dig tf.nist.gov ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> tf.nist.gov ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46860 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1,

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Robert Webb
Try again. Just worked fine for me. On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:16:58 -0700 Stuart Sheldon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yeah, it looks like it's down stu On 10/29/2014 10:14 AM, Brian Christopher Raaen wrote: The list of NIST NTP servers is down for me, is anyone els

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread John Peach
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi No, it's not On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:16:58 -0700 Stuart Sheldon wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Yeah, it looks like it's down > > stu > > > > On 10/29/2014 10:14 AM, Brian Christopher Ra

Re: NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Stuart Sheldon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yeah, it looks like it's down stu On 10/29/2014 10:14 AM, Brian Christopher Raaen wrote: > The list of NIST NTP servers is down for me, is anyone else seeing this? > I'm getting a 404 error > http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi > - -- "No pr

NIST NTP Server List

2014-10-29 Thread Brian Christopher Raaen
The list of NIST NTP servers is down for me, is anyone else seeing this? I'm getting a 404 error http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi -- Brian Christopher Raaen Network Architect Zcorum

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-26 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: The folks at NRC in Canada will do cryptographically authenticated NTP with you for an annual fee. I have no idea if there is something Robert, Thanks for the shout. NRC does do this, more info here: http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/servic

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-25 Thread Marcus Reid
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 09:49:31AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 10/24/2010 09:26, Brandon Kim wrote: > > > > Wow that is amazing and quite impressive that you even run the antenna > > linesinteresting..do you have to pay for the GPS service? > > > > > Make your own simple GPS NTP c

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-25 Thread Tony Finch
On 24 Oct 2010, at 18:28, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: >> On 10/24/10 10:20 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Peter Lothberg wrote: > >>>> How do you knew that your loca

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-25 Thread Joe Greco
> On 25/10/2010 15:56, Joe Greco wrote: > > Four is, IMHO, the best number of servers to have. They do not need to be > > fast or modern machines. > > They do need to have a somewhat unbroken internal clock. That's a good point. > This tends to mean that running ntp on a VM is not generally a g

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-25 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 25/10/2010 15:56, Joe Greco wrote: > Four is, IMHO, the best number of servers to have. They do not need to be > fast or modern machines. They do need to have a somewhat unbroken internal clock. This tends to mean that running ntp on a VM is not generally a good idea. Nick

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-25 Thread Joe Greco
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, George Bonser wrote: > > The main reason for that is that the "free" servers won't remain "free" > > if every single individual host on the Internet is hitting them. By > > running your own internal servers a stratum down you offload that > > traffic from the public servers

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-25 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Leo Bicknell writes: > For instance, for a couple of thousand dollars you can get a > Symmetricom appliance that will do GPS timing with analog dial > backup to NIST. That gives you two non-internet sources at relatively > low cost and low effort. Deploy four in different POP's and you > have

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-25 Thread John Kristoff
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:15:56 -0400 Brandon Kim wrote: > I have heard that routers don't make good NTP servers since they > weren't designed to keep track of time. This, I have read from a > Cisco source. Can't remember where though. Or maybe they were just > referring to older less powerful route

RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Brandon Kim wrote: By local I meant in-house, on-site in our datacenter. What do you think it means to have a NTP server in-house, on-site in your datacenter? There all many different levels of NTP servers. Putting some free software on a spare computer, and

[WOB] RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Joel M Snyder
Complete WOB, but I whenever people start talking about NTP, I always start trying to figure out how I could justify one of these for the data center: http://www.inovasolutions.com/network-clocks/products/analog-network-clocks.htm (PoE, SNTP, ANALOG clock) jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lin

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Cutler James R wrote: In my experience, a reliable NTP peer group can be implemented on the same set of boxes as DNS (bind, etc.) with little or no impact on DNS performance. If you can count to four or more, you can make a reliable peer group of time servers. There are l

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Martin Hotze
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:18:18 -0400 > From: David Andersen > Subject: Re: NTP Server (...) > If you find yourself needing really precise time with good guarantees, > you're not just talking about buying one GPS unit -- you can easily go > down a rathole of finding m

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote:> On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:48 AM, Matthew Petach wrote: NTP can potentially be used as a DoS vector by your upstream clocks, if you're not running your own. +1 Also, if you experience a network partition event for any reason (DDoS attack, backhoe attack

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Jorge Amodio
Nowadays is not that difficult to get off the shelf solutions for different applications. Just to point to one: http://www.symmetricom.com/products/ntp-servers/ntp-network-appliances/ Regards Jorge

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Cutler James R
an't remember where though. Or maybe they were just > referring to older less powerful routers like 2500 series... > > Brandon > > > > > > >> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:42:24 -0400 >> From: s...@donelan.com >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Su

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:48 AM, Matthew Petach wrote: > NTP can potentially be used as a DoS vector by your upstream clocks, if > you're not running your own. +1 Also, if you experience a network partition event for any reason (DDoS attack, backhoe attack, et. al.) which disrupts communications

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Cutler James R
Regarding leap seconds: A modern OS kernel using the NTP daemon to control time will always experience monotonic time. Negative leap seconds should result in the local clock slowing slightly until the local time matches the NTP-derived time. This is in strong contrast to what can happen when nt

RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Brandon Kim
010 14:42:24 -0400 > From: s...@donelan.com > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: NTP Server > > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Brandon Kim wrote: > > 1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really > > need the logs to be perfectly accurate? > > 2) If y

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread todd glassey
On 10/24/2010 7:37 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote: >> acquired the time from the three stratum-1 clocks, they all poll each other >> for the average. > > How many clocks/servers do you need to average from to knew that you > are within say 1ms of UTC(nist)? What type of evidence model do you need to p

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread todd glassey
On 10/24/2010 2:14 PM, Steven Hill wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote: > >>> How do you knew that your local NTP server knew what time it is? >>> (for sure) Because you got the time service from an authoritative source who did the rest of the work t

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Steven Hill
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote: How do you knew that your local NTP server knew what time it is?  (for sure) this question is a trap. Quite. We had 2 HP 5071s,(+ several GPS standards) and at the time being the definition of a second, either could be correct at any time

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 24, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Brandon Kim > wrote: >> >> Hey guys: >> >> I wanted to open up this question regarding NTP server. I recalled someone >> had created a posting of this quite awhile b

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: > > Hey guys: > > I wanted to open up this question regarding NTP server. I recalled someone > had created a posting of this quite awhile back. > >From a service provider/ISP standpoint,  does anyone think that having a &

RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread George Bonser
> From: Peter Beckman > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 11:33 AM > To: North American Network Operators Group > Subject: RE: NTP Server > > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, George Bonser wrote: > It sure would be nice if datacenter facilities offered an independent > NTP > t

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Brandon Kim wrote: 1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really need the logs to be perfectly accurate? 2) If you do have a local NTP server, is it only for local internal use, or do you provide this NTP server to your clients as an added service? 3

RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Peter Beckman
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, George Bonser wrote: The main reason for that is that the "free" servers won't remain "free" if every single individual host on the Internet is hitting them. By running your own internal servers a stratum down you offload that traffic from the public servers and preserve th

RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread George Bonser
> i would generally let customers chime off routers which are strat 2 or > 3. if a customer has other needs, then they can deal. if they are > really concerned, they should not bet on me anyway. > > > 3) If you do have a local NTP server, do you have a standby local NTP &

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread David Andersen
On Oct 24, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> 1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really >> need the logs to be perfectly accurate? > > what is "perfectly accurate?" perfection is not very realistic. to > what use do you put these logs? what precision and jitter

RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Brandon Kim
Looks like you have a pretty good setup. What vendor equipment are you using? You can let me know offline so it doesn't sound like you're advertising them > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:03:18 -0600 > From: br...@2mbit.com > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: NTP Ser

RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Brandon Kim
brandontek.com > CC: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: NTP Server > > > 1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really > >need the logs to be perfectly accurate? > > what is "perfectly accurate?" perfection is not very realistic. to &g

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Peter Lothberg
> acquired the time from the three stratum-1 clocks, they all poll each other > for the average. How many clocks/servers do you need to average from to knew that you are within say 1ms of UTC(nist)? -P

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/24/10 10:25 AM, John Kristoff wrote: > The "perfect accuracy" of log files might be hard to justify and > quantify. more to the point what's the minimum resolution of a counter in a log file, if it's 1s or 1ms it's a bit different than if it's 1us.

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On 10/24/10 10:20 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Peter Lothberg wrote: >>> How do you knew that your local NTP server knew what time it is?  (for sure) >> >> this question

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread John Kristoff
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:34:12 -0400 Brandon Kim wrote: > I wanted to open up this question regarding NTP server. I recalled > someone had created a posting of this quite awhile back. > >From a service provider/ISP standpoint, does anyone think that > >having a local NT

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/24/10 10:20 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Peter Lothberg wrote: >>> 1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really need th= >>> e logs to be perfectly accurate? >>> 2) If you do have a local NTP server=2C

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Steven Fischer
uilds, etc. > > It is simple enough to do for a five node home network. It is almost that > simple for a network with hundreds of thousands of client nodes. I've done > both. > > > On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Brandon Kim wrote: > > > > > I guess what I'

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Bret Clark
On 10/24/2010 12:29 PM, Brandon Kim wrote: I guess what I'm trying to understand is, is having your own NTP server just a luxury? I personally would like to have my own, I just need to pitch its advantages to my company. Unless everyone here on the NANOG group clearly spells it out to me

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:34:12AM -0400, Brandon Kim wrote: >From a service provider/ISP standpoint, does anyone think that having a local >NTP server is really necessary? Do you provide NTP to your customers? If you do there is probably an obligation there to

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Peter Lothberg wrote: >> 1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really need th= >> e logs to be perfectly accurate? >> 2) If you do have a local NTP server=2C is it only for local internal use= >> =2C or do you pr

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Jack Carrozzo
imiho, if you are just comparing router and server log files, run off > public. if you are trying to do fine-grained measurement, you are going > to invest a lot in clock and propagation research. > > > 2) If you do have a local NTP server, is it only for local internal > >

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Cutler James R
Time Service is more complicated than just having a single NTP server. But it can be useful and is not really a luxury. Two primary reasons for local time service are to reliably serve a network that is relatively or completely isolated from the general internet, and, to provide a local time

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Randy Bush
if you are just comparing router and server log files, run off public. if you are trying to do fine-grained measurement, you are going to invest a lot in clock and propagation research. > 2) If you do have a local NTP server, is it only for local internal >use, or do you provide this NTP

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 10/24/10 9:34 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: I wanted to open up this question regarding NTP server. I recalled someone had created a posting of this quite awhile back. From a service provider/ISP standpoint, does anyone think that having a local NTP server is really necessary? It may not be

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/24/2010 09:26, Brandon Kim wrote: > > Wow that is amazing and quite impressive that you even run the antenna > linesinteresting..do you have to pay for the GPS service? > Make your own simple GPS NTP clock source: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm ~Seth

RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Brandon Kim
I guess what I'm trying to understand is, is having your own NTP server just a luxury? I personally would like to have my own, I just need to pitch its advantages to my company. Unless everyone here on the NANOG group clearly spells it out to me that it's a luxury. I can see it a

RE: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Brandon Kim
Wow that is amazing and quite impressive that you even run the antenna linesinteresting..do you have to pay for the GPS service? > Subject: Re: NTP Server > To: brandon@brandontek.com > From: jkre...@usinternet.com > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:52:03 + > &g

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 25/10/10 2:55 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > For those you care about that: > > http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm Wow ... that's a lot more effort than I'm willing to put in on a time server. Regards, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 02:51:24AM +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: > > How do you knew that your local NTP server knew what time it is? (for sure) > > By polling as many stratum 1 and 2 time servers as possible. Having > your own stratum 2 server(s) beats nebulous NTP servers out i

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 24/10/10 5:44 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote: > > How do you knew that your local NTP server knew what time it is? (for sure) By polling as many stratum 1 and 2 time servers as possible. Having your own stratum 2 server(s) beats nebulous NTP servers out in the big bad Internet ever

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Peter Lothberg
> 1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really need th= > e logs to be perfectly accurate? > 2) If you do have a local NTP server=2C is it only for local internal use= > =2C or do you provide this NTP server to your clients as an added service? > 3) If you

NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Brandon Kim
Hey guys: I wanted to open up this question regarding NTP server. I recalled someone had created a posting of this quite awhile back. >From a service provider/ISP standpoint, does anyone think that having a local >NTP server is really necessary? I've asked some of my fellow engine