Hi Rob, I do really appreciate you documenting it all in the readme. Warms my heart :-)
Cheers, Simon T. Seems the mailing list did not like my original email. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 14 Nov 2022, at 15:26, Nathan Brookfield > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks Honest Rob, ordered! > > > > This will go well in my Pi-Rack at home 😊 > > > > NB > > From: AusNOG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rob Thomas > Sent: Monday, 14 November 2022 7:38 AM > To: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > Subject: [AusNOG] EVERYONE should have a Stratum 1 time server, right? > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
