On 4 May 2004, at 23:49, Don Stokes wrote:
Hi Russell,
we have discovered that most of the off campus sources we had for our NTP service are no longer there. Anybody willing to let us connect to their servers?
Does anybody know what has happened to bigben.clix.net.nz?
We're now using msltime.irl.cri.nz and ntp0.cs.mu.oz.au, with bigben.clix.net.nz still in the list until I hear whether or not it's coming back. There must be a *lot* of NTP configs out there that depend on bigben as a stratum 1 NTP server...
bigben.clix.net.nz was a Trutime GPS receiver that we bought before I left CLEAR, and which was installed in various places after I left by other people (it was on Level 48 in the Sky Tower for a while, but I think it moved out of there after a while). I heard a rumour the other day that it has not been demonstrating a high degree of happiness with the query load presented to it, and there was some plan afoot to drop a sub-stratum ntpd box in front of it to hide the Trutime box from the public query load. I didn't hear that from anybody at TCL, though, so that might not be right. Joe