Rob Inglis said,
> Well, I was messing about with Netinfo and performed a DNS lookup on
> ntp1.zetnet.co.uk and found it actually existed. Maybe this is the case
> for most ISPs, that they run a time server. Except for Free4All it seems,
> in fact, maybe none of the freebie ISPs do. Maybe Neil could give you the
> correct ISP stance on timeservers?
There are only two requirements for a time server. That it is close to
you in network terms and that it is accurate. any machine that has the
time and daytime services enabled can be used as a timer server, but
it's not a lot of use if it's clock is wrong.
Many ISPs alias the timer server address to a mail or news server,
since they need to have reasonably accurate clocks, but it's not
unknown for them to be a few minutes out.
Neil
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