perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Alex Hsia - NOAA Federal <>]

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Here are some good servers located at the NIST Boulder campus:  time-a, -b, 
-c timefreq.bldrdoc.gov: 132.163.4.101, .102, .103 also the servers in JILA 
at the University of Colorado:
  utcnist.coloardo.edu 128.138.140.44
and utcnist2.colorado.edu 128.138.141.172


On March 24, 2014 8:34:19 AM MDT, Jason Zurawski 
<>
 wrote:
>Greetings;
>
>The pS Performance Toolkit relies on accurate timing information
>provided by NTP software to ensure that measurements such as OWAMP and
>BWCTL function properly.  As many of you know, we feature a GUI
>'wizard' to help the community select several public servers to deliver
>this accuracy.  After the recent emphasis on the NTP Amplification
>attack, we have found that several previously public NTP time sources
>have been blocked, which does limit the number of choices users can
>rely on to ensure their systems are synchronized (see screen shot
>below).
>
>We are writing to ask for community assistance in identifying new
>servers to load into our configuration scripts.  If your network or
>campus does still run a public time source (e.g. one that is available
>via the R&E routing table) and you don't mind users synchronizing on a
>regular basis, we would ask that you get in touch with us.  This
>assistance would be very valuable as the number of deployed toolkit
>instances grows, and we would like to identify servers in different
>parts of the world (in particular, Europe, Asia, South America, and
>Africa do not have heavy coverage).
>
>If you believe you can be of assistance, please respond to
>''
> with the name of your server, and we can
>add it to the list.
>
>Thanks;
>
>-jason


- -Alex
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