Does Comcast provide NTP servers? (2nd try)

Scott R Ehrlich scott at MIT.EDU
Sun Feb 11 11:23:11 EST 2007


Quoting Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com>:

> I appreciate previous attempts to help, but I was already aware of the
> NTP pool servers
> as well as the claim that Comcast runs NTP on their gateways.  I prefer
> to not leach NTP off of someone else  (pool servers).
>
> Also, I had already seen the message about their gateways and tried
> every possible meaning
> for "Comcast gateway" that I could think of to no good effect.  If
> anyone has actually USED
> a Comcast NTP server in the Boston metro area, I appreciate info about it.
>

I just looked up my comcast gateway, set my CentOS ntp server to it, and the
time did not change (I had another extremely reliable ntp server).   Thus,
Comcast's NTP server appears reliable, from that initial test.

What other information can I offer?

Hope that helps.

Scott

> Thanks,
> Bill Bogstad
>
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