NTP Server

[brandon.kim at brandontek.com (Brandon Kim)]

Wow that is amazing and quite impressive that you even run the antenna lines....interesting......do you have to pay for the GPS service?






> Subject: Re: NTP Server
> To: brandon.kim at brandontek.com
> From: jkrejci at usinternet.com
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:52:03 +0000
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> Internet ntp is not as reliable as local ntp due to either reachability or tampering. We run a pair of GPS ntp servers with antennas ran to the roof of the building. We make them available to our customers as well as for our own use.
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> ------Original Message------
> From: Brandon Kim
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: NTP Server
> Sent: Oct 24, 2010 10:34 AM
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> Hey guys:
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> I wanted to open up this question regarding NTP server. I recalled someone had created a posting of this quite awhile back.
> >From a service provider/ISP standpoint,  does anyone think that having a local NTP server is really necessary?
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> I've asked some of my fellow engineers at work and many of them gives me the same response, "Can't we just use free ones out on the internet?"
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> 1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really need the logs to be perfectly accurate?
> 2) If you do have a local NTP server, is it only for local internal use, or do you provide this NTP server to your clients as an added service?
> 3) If you do have a local NTP server, do you have a standby local NTP server or do you use the internet as your standby server?
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> Thoughts?
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> Thanks in advance, and this list is such a valuable wealth of resource....
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> Brandon
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