NTP is observably fundamentally flawed. It's good, but drifts and has issues.
Here is a talk given to IAA members by an academic who has been measuring it for 20yrs: https://internet.asn.au/events/online_convergent_event_2/ The in person version had us all riveted. Narelle [email protected] On Tue, 14 July 2026, 7:23 pm Ross Wheeler, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Jul 2026, Mark Smith wrote: > > > So it seems a "nice to have" upstream NTP service that wasn't accurate > > and people didn't really care about became a need to be accurate on a > > network access device. > > This might sound conceited but I've never trusted "upstream" anythings > because I don't know how (or IF) they give a damn, unfortunately often > it's "we don't". > > If it's technically and financially PRACTICAL for me to do it in-house, I > do. Always have. Because *I* care about me and I know very few others do. > > R. > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >
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