In setting up a couple new pool servers recently, I noted there were a lot of dead servers on the stratum two list at support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/StratumTwoTimeServers It was a bit time consuming, and frustrating, to try and find good servers (and I'm in the US, where there are plenty of servers). Lots of back and forth, testing them manually with ping and 'ntpdate -q' I tried to contact the webmaster over there to see if they wanted assistance in cleaning up the list, and never got any responses, just a "hey, your email has been put in the moderation queue".
I imagine this becomes a frustration for many that are trying to contribute to the pool, and so I wanted to do something about it. So I built this: http://ntp.exactlywww.com/ntp/ It's primary purpose is to assist pool server operators in finding reliable servers to configure their own ntpd. However, it has the side benefit of allowing the stratum two folks to keep tabs on their servers. I've exposed the data via a rudimentary API (details on the same page), which can be queried using whatever service/programming language floats your boat. In fact, with something like NodePing, you could configure a status check to ensure that the API response always says "up: 1". At any rate, wanted to let folks know, hope it will be of use to some, and if Ask would like to put it on the setup instructions for new pool server operators, that'd be pretty cool too. Oh, one last note (I think I mention this on the page), but if you have a RestrictedAccess or ClosedAccess server and want it to be monitored and listed on that page, let me know - http://www.shanebishop.net/contact-me/. Currently, only OpenAccess servers are listed there. Best, Shane Bishop EWWW I.O. _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
