NTP syncing

[jdow]

From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at sewingwitch.com>

> --On Monday, September 20, 2004 10:38 PM -0700 Nifty Hat Mitch
> <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > Ask your ISP for a ntp reference list.
> > This is a service that all ISP's should be providing (IMO).
>
> Many ISP's supply NTP on their DNS servers or their routers, but it
> sometimes takes a bit of digging to find someone who'll own up to its
being
> there. Ideally the NTP server should be supplied by DHCP and it should an
> appropriate DNS name (eg. ntp.myisp.com), but few ISP's do this.

I noticed this ages ago. I also noticed that their time bore only a hazy
relationship to the clocks at UCSD. UCLA, and others. GTEI's ntp was worst
of the bunch. But then, I've not looked recently. So ymmv.

{^_^}