Why aren't ISPs providing stratum 1 NTP service?
I just crossed the 200th machine syncing of one of my stratum 1 servers. I like providing the service and it doesn't cost very much for me to offer the service. the problem I have with this is that NTP hates asymmetric routing, so the likelyhood is that for most people outside the provider that serves this machine, NTP time is suspect. It seems to me that the days when running a GPS refclock into an NTP server was exotic are long past. Why don't providers give NTP stratum 1 service to their customers? Then I can at least shed some of the most suspect clients (it's the routing path not the user that is suspect.) In search of good time for all, Jerry
On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Jerry Scharf wrote:
It seems to me that the days when running a GPS refclock into an NTP server was exotic are long past. Why don't providers give NTP stratum 1 service to their customers? Then I can at least shed some of the most suspect clients (it's the routing path not the user that is suspect.)
We provide status 2 service free to all our customers. So far, we've had 0 takers. Perhaps that's because of our customer mix or lack of marketing but... -dorian
GI/MIDnet does this as well, and we've only had 3 takers...... -alan ......... Dorian R. Kim is rumored to have said: ] ] On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Jerry Scharf wrote: ] ] > It seems to me that the days when running a GPS refclock into an NTP server ] > was exotic are long past. Why don't providers give NTP stratum 1 service to ] > their customers? Then I can at least shed some of the most suspect clients ] > (it's the routing path not the user that is suspect.) ] ] We provide status 2 service free to all our customers. So far, we've had 0 ] takers. Perhaps that's because of our customer mix or lack of marketing but... ] ] -dorian ] ]
GI/MIDnet does this as well, and we've only had 3 takers......
Perhaps it's because you folks aren't listed in the web-based successor to clock.txt?: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html --jhawk
participants (4)
-
Alan Hannan -
Dorian R. Kim -
John Hawkinson -
scharf＠vix.com