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November 30, 2006
Apparently they'll let anyone in these days
[Ed: Title is said in jest]
The phrase "Stratum 1 clock source" has always made me think of NIST, atomic clocks, cesium, expensive servers and lots of bandwidth run by a government agency or university and accessible only under certain conditions.
Today I configured an NTP server to sync to the Public NTP Server Pool and was surprised to see which NTP server it was assigned:
# ntptrace localhost localhost: stratum 2, offset 0.001531, synch distance 0.120854 dsl081-199-165.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net: stratum 1, offset 0.000004, synch distance 0.000599, refid 'GPS'
Cool to see that precision time sources are inexpensive enough to let the "average guy" with a DSL connection contribute with the big guys.
Posted by pete at November 30, 2006 5:28 PM