Most of us are home/small business users and we have no need to touch the main stratum 1 ntp servers. That way we keep the traffic off those servers and distribute it to lower levels. Yes. In fact, there is no need to use a time "server" at all. In the first
On Monday 02 October 2006 13:18, Stan Glasoe wrote: place opening a port for NTP to the network opens a vulnerability--however remote--that is not necessary. Secondly, radio down link from GPS is cheap, fast, reliable, and secure. Basically, you tie an inexpensive GPS receiver to your local network. One machine on the local network becomes the NTP server for the entire network behind your local firewall, and that server gets the time from GPS. (In this scenario we are only interested in the time, not the positioning, so expensive receivers and fancy software are not necessary) I have been investigating two possibilities for my home network: 1) The GPS receiver from DeLORME 2) The GPS receiver from Megellan (plugs into my Visor Palm. The difficulty as always is the problem of drivers (or writing open code). What would be really cool is if some vendor like LinkSys would build a GPS timebase receiver into their wireless routers/modems. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><