I was thinking about the not the closest-server problem today, and realized this is a good application for BGP-DNS http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/bgpdns/ Making it possible to look at the reqeustor's network location and retrun the "closest" servers. -Ejay -----Original Message----- From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:curtis@maurand.com] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:37 AM To: wayne Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: pool.ntp.org NTP servers ns1.mainelinesys.com Curtis On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, wayne wrote:
This seems like a good time to put in a plug for the pool.ntp.org NTP servers. This is collection of public ntp servers provided by individuals and ISP's placed in a round-robin DNS system. The goal is to provide the general public with a list of NTP servers that they can use without abusing the stratum 1 servers.
If you can provide an NTP server to the pool, it would be greatly appreciated. The bandwidth and CPU usage of an NTP server is quite low so you can easily provide NTP services to hundreds or even thousands of users.
If you create default NTP setups and you don't have good default NTP servers to use, feel free to use pool.ntp.org for one or more of your NTP sources. (You should have at least 3 NTP sources, although using more than three doesn't usually help much.)
For more information, see:
-wayne
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