[lug] NTP question

[Neal McBurnett]

Note that the URL of the list of stratum 2 servers, as used in the
script below, changes over time, and that the real place to go for the
latest URL and the "Rules of Engagement" is

  http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html

When you find some good, close candidates, you have to go back to the
list of servers to see if there are specific rules for the server
you're considering, e.g. registration, service area, etc.

-Neal

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:42:28PM -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> I found the other clocks I use with this little script I wrote, to
> find the closest ones from the "stratum 2" list that are keeping good
> time right now.  I choose manually from the handful of servers
> with the lowest (but non-zero) delay.
> 
>  lynx -source http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html |
>       sed -n -e 's,).*,,' -e' /([0-9.]*$/s/.*(//p' |
>       xargs ntpdate -q |
>       sort -n +7 > /tmp/ntp-close