NTP syncing

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:34:23PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:17 AM -0400 Gene Heskett 
> 
> >Verizon hasn't volunteered that they have one or more such servers.
> >For me, that would be very nice.
> 
> According to <http://www.dslreports.com/faq/5825> Verizon has monitored 
> support newsgroups. There's also some Verizon forums at 
> <http://www.dslreports.com/forums/47>.
> 
> Try running ntptrace to your Verizon-supplied DNS servers and to your 
> gateway. One of them may have decent time.

Another discovery trick is to use traceroute and use
ntptrace to inspect your nearby routers.  Most big name
routers supply ntp if so configured.

Example traceroute redhat.com, or smtp.yourisp.com
then I run a quick test of 1,2,3,4

     for i in  ..... list from traceroute ....
     do
     echo ======================
     ntptrace $i
     done

Always ASK your ISP for the service. If they never
hear the demand they cannot provide the service.


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