http://www.ntp.org is the home page for the "Network Time Protocol (NTP) project"
It has a lot of useful info on NTP and provides a link to the pages (one listed below) for ntp servers worldwide (and the policies associated with connecting to them)
Clock1.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (an alias for pukeko) in the Computer Science dept at Canterbury University) is the only listed public stratum 1 for NZ. (Maybe someone needs to let clix know about that site)
Others are private. (Waikato and Otago each have one I think)
There are a number of stratum 2 machines listed. The link http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html is for the stratum2. Ours is on the stratum1 servers page http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock1a.html
We are setting up a local page to "blow our own trumpet" a bit and that will show who connects to us. There should be a link under here at some stage in the future http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/events/index.html
For those that need it, we offer connections for reasonable sized networks... There is not much point of having < millisecond accurate time for a home network. Connecting to a stratum 2 should be accurate enough (still can be in the milliseconds range)
Hey -- If the CLUG gets a server sorted similar to what was being discussed recently, you can connect it to us so you can service everyone in Canterbury :-)
Pete
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Here's my list of ntp servers I found in NZ. time.paradise.net.nz # stratum 2 only for Paradise customers? truechimer.waikato.ac.nz # stratum 2 public access disabled truechimer2.waikato.ac.nz # stratum 2 public access disabled truechimer3.waikato.ac.nz # stratum 2 public access disabled ntp.public.otago.ac.nz # stratum 2 ntp.massey.ac.nz # stratum 2 its-dns1.massey.ac.nz # stratum 3 tk1.ihug.co.nz # stratum 2 ntp.iprolink.co.nz # stratum 2 cantva.canterbury.ac.nz # startum 2 (go easy or it might not stay) pukeko.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz # stratum 1 only on campus, source for cantva bigben.clix.net.nz # stratum 1
ntpq -n -c peer <host> often tells you which other servers that host peers with. It shows for example that Waikato is running plenty of ntp servers, but none to the public. Interesting that pukeko.cosc.canterbury is backing up Otago, Massey, and Ihug. There's a web of time servers, but the above seems to be pretty much it for public access.
There's a list of international ntp servers here:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html
Volker
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