Need trusted NTP Sources

[LarrySheldon at cox.net (Larry Sheldon)]

After all these years I still can not get used to the non-standard NANOG 
response to "reply".  I wonder if there is a way for ne to fix that locally.

On 2/6/2014 8:49 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> On 2/6/2014 4:43 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> On 06/02/2014 10:03, Notify Me wrote:
>>> I'm trying to help a company I work for to pass an audit, and we've
>>> been told we need trusted NTP sources (RedHat doesn't cut it).
>>
>> So presuming that your company is using RH or Fedora or CentOS something,
>> the auditors are claiming that Red Hat, Inc is trusted enough to
>> provide a
>> precompiled based operating system with no feasible means of proving its
>> reliability, but that they're not trustworthy enough to provide a clock
>> synchronisation service?
>>
>> My head spins.
>>
>> Get new auditors.  Your current ones are stupid.
>
> It has been a while since I have done anything with NTP, but I would
> start with ntp.org (which didn't exist when I WAS working with it) which
> I am led to believe has the stuff that used to be at U. Delaware, like
> the public servers lists:
>
> http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome
>
>


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