[WBEL-users] bug: wb-final redhat

[David Jao]

I don't think that time.nist.gov is a good idea. The NTP server page at
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock1a.html says:

US CO time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18)
Location: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Geographic Coordinates: 39:58:43.44N 254:43:32.5E +1840m (WGS 84)
Synchronization: ACTS dial-up with NTP backup, DEC Alpha UNIX Service
Area: NSFnet, WESTnet
Access Policy: open to stratum-2 servers and others by arrangement

which from the last line doesn't sound like they intend it to be a
totally public server.

There are plenty of open access servers on that NTP page, including the
"big navy ones", but even those servers usually have some sort of
geographic service area restriction. I can't immediately find any
servers that would obviously be a better choice than redhat's.

-David

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 20:33, donavan nelson wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:01:12 -0600 (CST), John Morris wrote
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, donavan nelson wrote:
> > 
> > > setting up ntpd in firstboot still contains clock.redhat.com and
> clock2.redhat.com
> > 
> > Yea, couldn't think of any better servers to list.  There aren't all 
> > that many totally open ntp servers out there.  I know I didn't want 
> > to list ours and get it DDoSed.
> 
> I did reply to this issue in here when it first came up.  time.nist.gov and
> any of the big navy ones would would have worked (or leave it at time.nist.gov).
> 
> But either way.  redhat _does_ run public time servers...
> 
> .dn
> 
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> Donavan Nelson
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