Ryan noted" > Speaking of NTP as a "standard Internet service", I > always wondered why there wasn't more collaboration > between the root DNS operators and > the NTP Pool project, given their common association with isc.org.
There is some close collaboration going on, and I have learned much from the dependencies that DNS has on NTP for authentication and other features. Most of what I learned I learned from the ntp hackers list hosted on isc.org. The interrelations between time and DNS authentication have led to many of the decisions that we talk about here regarding NTP and DNS lookups. It's very easy to get into a chicken-and-egg situation if you make the wrong change. > It is interesting to me that c.root-servers.net, which > is run actaully hosted by our corporate ISP (Cogent), > responds to NTP queries at stratum 3. The two other > root server names I tried did not respond to > NTP queries. A smartly structured server hierarchy makes something that sits at stratum 3 get far more reliable time than something that sits at stratum 1. Tim. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
