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Steve Herber posted <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603230836590.17275@×××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:47:58 -0800: |
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> When I was re-configuring my ntp system one day I went to the ntp home |
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> page: |
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> http://www.ntp.org/ |
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> and found their very cool, Gentoo like, user contributed, ntp server pool: |
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> http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers |
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> You might want to put your server into the public pool.ntp.org time |
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> server pool. This is a great project. |
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> They also list stratum one and two servers. Please note that you need |
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> to ask permission or register with many of the system owners if you want |
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> to use them. |
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I believe that must have been where I got my original list, choosing |
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several of the stratum two/three servers to sync against, based on |
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geographic and internet diversity. If you notice, I have both a contact |
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comment and a notify requirement status comment line in my posted |
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suggested format, and yes, I did make use of them when originally setting |
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up. |
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As for running a publicly accessible server, I'm personally just consumer |
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level here, the one machine on a no-servers-allowed residential cable |
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modem connection, but I'd almost certainly run one as a public service if |
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I were a business with a static IP address and permanent internet |
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presence. It's simple enough as a way to give a bit back to the |
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community, and shouldn't be as demanding bandwidth-wise as many public |
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servers would be. (A publicly accessible caching nameserver would be |
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similar, altho somewhat higher bandwidth due to the frequency of access |
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for those not running their own, both of course assuming no deliberate |
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DoSing in which case bandwidth usage would of course be rather higher.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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