time reference servers?

[William Park]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:36:18AM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Stephen Allen wrote:
> > There is an excellent web page:
> >
> > <http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html>.
> >
> > Shows the public stratum 1 and 2 servers by country.
> 
> It's important to avoid polling off stratum 1 servers.  Even using
> stratem 2 servers should be avoided where possible (which should be
> pretty much always).  If the ISP has an NTP server use that, otherwise
> use one of the publically available servers.

My ISP (eol.ca) doesn't provide any port 13/37/123 services.
<time.apple.com> and <time.windows.com> presumably can handle lots of
connections, because they synchronize all Apple and Windows machines.
But, still, it just doesn't feel right to use those...

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