Yo! In short: If you have a computer with a static IP address, I'd be glad if you'd run ntpd and offered it for public use on the time.fortytwo.ch DNS round robin. Expected traffic is very low - I hope to get as many time servers as I can, so the load will be spread as far as possible. The longer version: In the comp.protocols.time.ntp newsgroup, it was discussed that some of the public time servers (as listed somewhere on ntp.org) are having problems with too much traffic. I figured: for everyday use, accuracy is no problem (Who cares if their clock goes 100ms wrong?). So, I'm trying to set up a DNS round robin DNS zone on time.fortytwo.ch, so everybody can just use a default ntp.conf and doesn't need to worry ever again. Right now, it's not operating yet: I need timeservers. As I said, accuracy is not the issue right now, so even if it's just a router with stratum 3 or even higher, it can help. If you want to help, just drop me a note at clockmaster@fortywo.ch (or reply to this mail, it's the same, really). If you're interested: there's http://fortytwo.ch/time for more information, including mailing lists. A further note: this project could, of course, also benefit Debian: as soon as there's a big enough number of servers, I think the Debian ntp package could just ship with a default config file that would just work, for the cases where somebody installs ntp but doesn't know his ISP's ntp server. Now I hope to be drowned in email :-) So long -- vbi * posted to debian-project because (some of) the Debian machines could join * posted on debian-isp because there's many people with suitable gear that might be interested. -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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