NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe)

Sat Aug 5 19:26:37 UTC 2023

Mark,

You might consider setting up your own GPS-based NTP network. Commercial Ethernet GPS-sourced NTP servers, such as the Time Machines, TM1000A, are as little as $400. Or you can roll your own using a Raspberry Pi or similar nano computer with a GPS module and antenna. We use these exclusively in data centers now rather than depending on Internet NTP servers, primarily for security, because financial transactions in e-commerce can be sensitive to false time information. There are also a variety of NTP-based Internet attacks, so if you can block NTP at your border you’ve eliminated another attack surface.

-mel via cell

> On Aug 5, 2023, at 11:22 AM, Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:
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>> On 8/5/23 20:17, Chris Adams wrote:
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>> It's the NTP pool people you need to talk to - the .freebsd. bit is just
>> a vendored entry into the pool (more for load tracking and management).
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> Yes, Andreas clarified in unicast. Will do. Thanks.
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> Mark.