Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.cs.mu.oz.au going away - 2010-01-01

2009-10-29 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote in message news:x06gm.50657$ph1.37...@edtnps82... [] In case someone else is reading this and had an interest in setting up a stratum 1 server, there are off the shelf solutions. The cheapest is a Gamin 18xLVC GPS receiver, some wiring (soldering in a usb connector and a serial

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.cs.mu.oz.au going away - 2010-01-01

2009-10-29 Thread Evandro Menezes
Or one could get a plug computer like http://www.tonidoplug.com and use a GPS over USB, which works quite well as David proved. I myself am tempted at one such plug computer just for the geek factor! :-) HTH ___ questions mailing list

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.cs.mu.oz.au going away - 2010-01-01

2009-10-29 Thread Erik Soosalu
In case someone else is reading this and had an interest in setting up a stratum 1 server, there are off the shelf solutions. The cheapest is a Gamin 18xLVC GPS receiver, some wiring (soldering in a usb connector and a serial connector) and a computer with a usb port and a serial port.

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.cs.mu.oz.au going away - 2010-01-01

2009-10-28 Thread Unruh
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

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.cs.mu.oz.au going away - 2010-01-01

2009-10-28 Thread Rick Jones
Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: Wilson R. Afonso wafo...@csse.unimelb.edu.au writes: 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

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.cs.mu.oz.au going away - 2010-01-01

2009-10-28 Thread Unruh
Rick Jones rick.jon...@hp.com writes: Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: Wilson R. Afonso wafo...@csse.unimelb.edu.au writes: 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

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.cs.mu.oz.au going away - 2010-01-01

2009-10-28 Thread Wilson R. Afonso
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:34:19 GMT, Unruh wrote: Agreed. But I am curious, since I do not see much demand on capability to hosting such a server, so the reason he gives is puzzling. It may be that the administration thinks that hosting such a server is a high capabilities job. Or it could be

[ntp:questions] ntp.cs.mu.oz.au going away - 2010-01-01

2009-10-27 Thread Wilson R. Afonso
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.