[ntp:questions] Local Time NTP Server

Uwe Klein uwe at klein-habertwedt.de
Wed Aug 26 07:37:00 UTC 2020


Am 24.08.2020 um 12:51 schrieb Beth Connell:
> Hi, I'm struggling to find any information on where the free NTP
> servers are geographically based. In particular, I'm wondering where
> Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc are based within the UK. Just for
> curiousity, I'm wondering how this affects any interference to my
> location.
>
> Thanks
>

The traceroute tool should give you an incling about location.
( if route tracing is allowed and the routers names resolve.
    often provider routers have geo identifiers:

Forex:
traceroute to time-a-g.nist.gov (129.6.15.28), 30 hops max, 40 byte 
packets using UDP
  1  zzz.box (182.168.179.1)  0.277 ms   0.345 ms   0.256 ms
  2  p3e9bf135.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (62.155.241.53)  20.464 ms   20.144 
ms   20.726 ms
  3  f-eh1-i.F.DE.NET.DTAG.DE (62.154.18.70)  30.226 ms   29.796 ms 
29.851 ms
  4  * * *
  5  * * *
  6  CenturyLink-level3-NewYork6.Level3.net (4.68.70.50)  119.547 ms 
118.809 ms   118.944 ms
  7  dca-edge-22.inet.qwest.net (67.14.6.142)  119.632 ms   119.404 ms 
  119.341 ms
  8  204.98.157.238 (204.98.157.238)  123.446 ms   122.953 ms   124.012 ms

doesn't work as well as it used to work.

Uwe



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