On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:35, Peter Glassenbury wrote:
> Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 10:03, Michael Pearce wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a public access time server I can
> >
> > use rdate with from my paradise connection.
> > On a related note, for NTP you can use:
> >
> >   www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (stratum 2)
> >   truechimer.waikato.ac.nz (stratum ?)
>
> -- Ah - no you can't on either of them

??!

root@liberty rsync-2.5.5 # ntpdate truechimer.waikato.ac.nz
 4 Dec 12:07:14 ntpdate[7094]: adjust time server 130.217.76.32 offset 
-0.000276 sec
root@liberty rsync-2.5.5 # ntpdate truechimer2.waikato.ac.nz
 4 Dec 12:08:40 ntpdate[7095]: adjust time server 130.217.66.13 offset 
0.002387 sec
root@liberty rsync-2.5.5 # ntpdate truechimer3.waikato.ac.nz
 4 Dec 12:08:48 ntpdate[7096]: adjust time server 130.217.76.30 offset 
0.022758 sec
root@liberty rsync-2.5.5 #

> Waikato, that started the BOFH, now has a slightly higher up
> person that has put the stop to all public service NTP(I believe)
> I think they were all switched to internal only. (I know the
> Stratum 1 is definitely)
>
> Cosc has become the only stratum 1 service available to connect
> to in NZ. We restrict it to networks only -- (single hosts can
> connect to stratum 2 servers around the place) -- and the connections
> are made when I get around to configuring each one.
>
> Unfortunately www.cosc got stopped with a reoganisation of machines
> (We shifted the web from Solaris on X86 to read-only disks on Linux
> and you all know how hard it is to get things working on linux ----
> ---- Woops - wrong news group :-) :-)

If you were to 's/linux/certain distributions of linux/' in the above I would 
agree with you. Remember that red usually signifies danger, its use in this 
context is no exception to the general rule in my experience

> We might get it going again when we get some spare time....
> (around the turn of the century I reckon :-(
>
> Pete

-- 
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell

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