Finally a timesource I can feel confident setting my watch to. On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 at 07:38, Rob Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> The good news is, you now can! After about 6 months of wrangling bits and > pieces together, "Honest" Rob's Used Car (and VoIP) Emporium has finally > managed to get a bunch of custom made GPS Shields built and they are > sitting right next to me here in Australia, suitable for lego-esque > construction of your own NTP server! > > These are being sold at pretty much cost - AUD$30 ex - as a pro-bono thing > for those who want their very own Stratum 1 NTP server. All you need to do > is supply your own Raspberry Pi or equivalent - you just need something > with a clock speed over 1ghz and standard GPIO pins. > > But wait, there's more! You don't NEED to buy this specific hardware - if > you already have a GPS device with a PPS signal, you can just fork and hack > on the repo that started this: > > https://github.com/xrobau/rpi-ntp (Note: that locks down SSH to key > only, and *only* puts my key in there, don't just run it blindly without at > least adding your ssh pubkey!) > > This all started because we needed more IPv6 NTP servers in the Asia > Pacific region, and it was annoyingly hard to find plug-and-play hardware. > I'm really hoping that a bunch of you lot will buy a few, and put them up > as public servers with IPv6 addresses on ntppool.org. > > https://freepbxhosting.com.au/s/gps-v1/ > > I also have them up on eBay, for $40 each, but that's for the public, not > for the cool kids club that is AusNog. > > Currently I can only ship to AU and NZ, but that's purely because I'm lazy > and haven't figured out the costs. For those outside the North, South and > West islands of New Zealand, feel free to reach out to me off list with > your address and I'll figure something out. > > --"Honest" Rob > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > -- Kind Regards, Christopher Barnes e. [email protected]
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