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TelstraClear generously provides a stratum 1 [NTP] server for public use:''''
<tt>bigben.clix.net.nz</tt>
-However, you really shouldn't synchronise to a stratum one server for your small network -- if everyone did that then the
the server would probably need too much bandwidth. Please read http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2001-October/003705.html. The difference in accuracy between synching to a stratum 1 server and a lower stratum server is negligible!
+However, you really shouldn't synchronise to a stratum one server for your small network -- if everyone did that then the server would probably need too much bandwidth. Please read http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2001-October/003705.html. The difference in accuracy between synching to a stratum 1 server and a lower stratum server is negligible!
For example, read http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ -- in summary, ~NetGear hard-coded a public [NTP] server into some of their consumer products, which eventually ended up using hundreds of Mbits/second of the university's bandwidth, even after they were forced to shut down the server.
!!! Other [NTP] Servers
