On Apr 24, 2006, at 5:23 AM, Ryan Malayter wrote:
Has anyone approached major ISPs about adding their routers to the pool? All of the core and edge routers run by my company's ISP (Qwest) provide stratum-3 or better NTP and keep good time. My home ISP (Comcast) also provides NTP from their edge routers.
I can't imagine that the ISPs would want their routers to be popular public NTP servers too.
On the other hand, any old single-CPU box with a minimum of memory will work fine as a public NTP server.
That being said -- I don't think anyone has approached the ISPs. If you have contacts at your ISP, please tell them about the NTP Pool.
Eventually it'd be cool to be able to have the pool direct users to their local ISPs NTP server (but it doesn't make sense until many ISPs have their NTP servers in the pool).
Getting all those resources into the pool would help dramatically, I think, and not cost the ISPs much at all. In fact, if geographic DNS could be made to work, it would actually cost the ISPs *less* in transit & peering traffic to add their routers into the pool than to not add them.
The bandwidth cost for the NTP servers is negligible in most cases. - ask -- http://askask.com/ - http://develooper.com/ _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
