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Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services?
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 01:08:50 -0600
Thus spake <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>
I'm currently composing a note to a software house, which is asking
for
permission to list some of our NTP servers in their software's config
files.
Before I do that, is there any "standard" for ISP's for naming their hosts that provide time service on ports 13, 37, or 123? Even if it's a list of "AOL users should try 'time.aol.com' first" rules, that
might
be an improvement....
It used to be that "tick" and "tock" were the common aliases for a pair of Stratum 2 NTP servers. "truechimer" was the recommended alias for a Stratum 1 NTP server. In recent years, people seem to have moved to "ntp1", "ntp2", etc. in the same way they use "ns1", "ns2", etc. for DNS servers. I personally dislike the latter trend and prefer the more colorful names. S | | Stephen Sprunk, K5SSS, CCIE #3723 :|: :|: Network Design Consultant, GSOLE :|||: :|||: New office: RCDN2 in Richardson, TX .:|||||||:..:|||||||:. Email: ssprunk () cisco com
Current thread:
- Any "standard" name for ISP time services? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 16)
- Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services? J.D. Falk (Nov 16)
- Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services? Ran Atkinson (Nov 16)
- Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 16)
- Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services? Stephen Sprunk (Nov 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 16)
- Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services? J.D. Falk (Nov 16)
- Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 16)
- Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services? Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 16)