Thus spake <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
I'm currently composing a note to a software house, which is asking for permission to list some of our NTP servers in their software's config files. Before I do that, is there any "standard" for ISP's for naming their hosts that provide time service on ports 13, 37, or 123? Even if it's a list of "AOL users should try 'time.aol.com' first" rules, that might be an improvement....
It used to be that "tick" and "tock" were the common aliases for a pair of Stratum 2 NTP servers. "truechimer" was the recommended alias for a Stratum 1 NTP server. In recent years, people seem to have moved to "ntp1", "ntp2", etc. in the same way they use "ns1", "ns2", etc. for DNS servers. I personally dislike the latter trend and prefer the more colorful names. S | | Stephen Sprunk, K5SSS, CCIE #3723 :|: :|: Network Design Consultant, GSOLE :|||: :|||: New office: RCDN2 in Richardson, TX .:|||||||:..:|||||||:. Email: ssprunk@cisco.com