Re: [Fed-Talk] What do you use for Time Service?
Re: [Fed-Talk] What do you use for Time Service?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] What do you use for Time Service?
- From: Dan Morrison <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 21:21:04 -0600
If you need an authoritative source for NTP on a closed network, these
folks make a good product (we've deployed quite a few). You'll need
to be able to run coax from the appliance to a location with GPS
reception.
http://www.symmetricom.com/products/ntp-servers/ntp-network-appliances/
-Dan
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Wm. Cerniuk <email@hidden> wrote:
> I used to use tick and tock in the navy for public time service. It was
> great:
> http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html
>
> The Apple NTP has also been very reliable.
>
> At the office NTP is blocked and we can access neither external resource
> referenced. In the absence, the Mac OS X server services include NTP but
> with no real source of authority. Not like we have an atomic clock and serve
> as the world standard for time measurements like other Govt orgs ;-)
>
> The good news is that because MacBooks travel, they hit the clear Internet
> often enough to stay on time with Navy resources. The desktops, not so much.
>
> V/R,
> Wm. Cerniuk
> 703.594.7616
>
> (Sent faster from my iPhone 3G)
>
> On May 5, 2009, at 6:21 PM, "Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-IS30)"
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> What do Federal folks use for time service? Do you keep the
>> time.apple.com default, or do you use your own servers? Are your NTP servers
>> public facing or internal only?
>>
>> I'm well set on internal servers, but hate to leave my roaming users
>> without reliable time service. We have split DNS, so with a couple of extra
>> external servers I trusted I'd be in good shape. Does anyone use time from
>> another Agency? Anyone with time to
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