"Wilson R. Afonso" <wafo...@csse.unimelb.edu.au> writes: >Hello all,
>The Department of Computer Science of the University of Melbourne has for >many years hosted the stratum 1 NTP server at ntp.cs.mu.oz.au. This service >is heavily used, with requests coming from all corners of the world; it >responds to approximately 500 requests per second on average. >This service will be discontinued from 01 January 2010. We no longer have >the capability (budget and manpower) to maintain the service in its current >state, and rather than letting it degrade and fail, we're bringing it down >in a controlled manner. To bad. But I am wondering what the manpower requirements are? You have GPS receivers and they would not seem to me to require must maintainance. >We kindly ask that anyone who perchance maintains a publicly available list >of NTP servers remove ntp.cs.mu.oz.au and related servers (ntp0, ntp1, >ntp2) from that list. We are doing our best to locate maintainers of >high-profile lists to get the servers unlisted. A similar request is made >of anyone who ships software that includes these servers in a list of >possible synchronisation targets. Also, of course, if you manage systems >that sync with these servers, we ask that you start using a different >system. We atrongly recommend using the services of pool.ntp.org. >Thank you for your cooperation. >-Wilson >-- >Wilson Roberto Afonso wafo...@unimelb.edu.au >Systems Administrator +61 3 8344 1271 >IT Services Melbourne School of Engineering _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
