At 15:05 16/11/00, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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?
I have seen two conventions pretty widely used. I prefer (1) for style reasons, but (2) seems equally sensible. 1) clock.<domain> Examples: clock.home.net clock.nrl.navy.mil clock.umd.edu clock.cmc.ec.qc.ca clock.uregina.ca clock.cuhk.edu.hk clock.nc.fukuoka-u.ac.jp clock.isc.org clock.sgi.com clock.via.net clock.osf.org clock.llnl.gov 2) ntp.<domain> Examples: See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock1.htm Ran rja@extremenetworks.com