[LUAU] Favorite NTP server?

[Al Plant]

Brian Chee wrote:
> Can't answer that, but Alan Whinery is behind it and it's providing NTP for
> UHM ITS facilities. Have you thought of ntp.pool.org?

Aloha,

Its the pool that is the problem in NTP. There are old allowed services 
that have been removed from the new release and the vulnerable things 
removed. A rarely used  monitoring feature for instance.

AL



> /brian chee
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jeff Mings <jeffm at lava.net> wrote:
> 
>> That was fast!  You are SO on it, Mr. Chee!  :D
>>
>>     Since you work with the UH IT dept., I'm not surprised you produced a
>> UH server.  Is this particular server _reliably_ deployed?  I.e., will it
>> likely be consistently available 5 years from now?  There are a lot of
>> devices, like phones, that I need to set a good NTP server on that I might
>> not check for several years.
>>
>> Thanks Brian,
>> -Jeff
>>
>> On 02/20/2014 12:44 PM, Brian Chee wrote:
>>
>>> ntp1.hawaii.edu canonical name = ntproundtop.hawaii.edu.
>>> Name: ntproundtop.hawaii.edu
>>> Address: 128.171.235.62
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Jeff Mings <jeffm at lava.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi All!
>>>>      After the new NTP DOS vulnerability, a lot of NTP servers are
>>>> changing
>>>> their operation.
>>>>
>>>>      I have used the navy's atomic clock at tick.mhpcc.hpc.mil for quite
>>>> some time, but it appears that they may be reducing access to it now.
>>>>
>>>>      Many of my clients use RoadRunner locally, which doesn't seem to
>>>> have
>>>> a publicly-listed NTP server in this area.  I could use the pool from
>>>> CentOS, or even the one from Apple, but I want to make sure I use a
>>>> server
>>>> or pool of them that won't be overwhelmed/useless like the Microsoft NTP
>>>> servers.  So far, using 0.us.pool.ntp.org  looks like a solid choice for
>>>> long-term reliability, but nist1-la.ustiming.org yields better ping
>>>> times, and the NIST has a nice status page at http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/
>>>> servers.cgi   for checking service.
>>>>
>>>> Any better suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -Jeff
>>>>
>>>>
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