[ntp:questions] Re: Weather Channel NTP Admin?

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sat Jan 7 18:54:09 UTC 2006


Jed Clear wrote:

>Steve Kostecke wrote:
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>>On 2006-01-07, Jed Clear <clear at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>>>Does anyone have the contact information for the admin of
>>>ntp1.twc.weather.com?
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>>>
>>I found the original Stratum 1 time server list in Google cache and the
>>contact information listed there is only "Contact: NTP Administrator".
>>So nothing was omitted when the lists migrated to the NTP Public Services
>>Project.
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>I wonder if NTPAdministrator or NTP.Administrator is an e-mail alias.  I made an
>attempt, probably futile, to get webmaster at weather.com to relay a message to
>their NOC.  I may try one of the less relevant "contact us" choices on their web
>site.  I suppose I could also try abuse@<their ISP>; surely running a public
>stratum 1 out of sync qualifies as abuse.  I wonder if weather.com has a real
>technical POC contact listed.
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>>>Also, the NTP Wiki Server entry for time.twc.weather.com has what
>>>appears to be an old IP. "nslookup time.twc.weather.com" returns both
>>>ntp1 and ntp2, but neither is the listed IP.
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>>I've corrected this list entry.
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>Thanks.  Alas this hints that no one at TWC is taking an active interest in
>their NTP service.  And I thought everyone checked their NTP servers twice a
>day.  What is the world coming to?
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>-Jed
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It's not just ntp1.weather.com.  Their server is in sync with a CDMA 
cell phone base station which appears to be still unaware of the leap 
second almost seven days ago!  Face it!  Some clocks are just not going 
to get it right except by sheer accident.




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