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The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available

Posted by timothy on from the otherwise-you'll-start-waking-up-last-week dept.

Do you have a static IP or two? If so, you might be able to spread some Internet infrastructure well-being with very little effort. An anonymous reader writes "The NTP Pool project is turning 10 soon, and needs more servers to continue serving reasonably accurate time to anyone in the world."

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  1. Re:US Navy Master Clock by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These three are the US master clock's stratum-1 servers. They most likely will not run out of bandwidth.

    Don't do that, though; it's anti-social. The NTP ecosystem is much better off scaling horizontally than vertically.

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?