On 25/08/16 23:22, Carsten Larsen wrote: > > I also struggle to find those good time servers. The pool is a good > source but the servers tent to go on and of - which I guess would be > one of the benefits from using a pool. I think its a very good > initiative and I have often wondered why support.ntp.org was the only > public source of ntp servers. > > Besides, I think I will take the advantage and integrate your API into > ntpa, which I develop in my spare time.
I've had servers in the pool for years. A few weeks ago, I decided to add a new server. I had a box which has no reason not to be in the pool. I was thinking - I'm going to try and find some new upstreams for the new server. All my existing pool servers depend on the generosity of one university. And the use of those servers comes from when I had servers in the same room at that university with an almost directly peered network. Many years on, I can do better. So I started on the list of UK servers at http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/StratumTwoTimeServers Well, what a pile of out of date crap. Many of the IPs are just people with home ADSL on static IP. Most don't work. I got to the point where I'm thinking `should I just buy a GPS card`. So I think any effort to make it easier for pool operators to setup their server is a good thing. I was a bit dismayed by the reply from Brad Knowles. It read to me like `somebody had a good idea to have some very basic data validation on the list and that wasn't my idea, and I don't like it`. Maybe that isn't how it was meant to come across. I think it is a good idea for lists of servers to be automatically checked. The pool is an amazing thing. Anything we can do to help people add new servers is a good thing. BTW, I'd be happy to host some kind of timeserver. If anybody has a suggestion for an atomic/GPS clock that I can fit in my server room. I've easy access to outside for an antenna and a 100M leased line. I've got a USB GPS, but I suspect that won't be good enough. Tim _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
