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From: trost@REED.REED.EDU (Bill Trost)
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Subject: choosing peers
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Date: 25 Apr 91 22:41:00 GMT
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The manual for ntpd(8) says:

     NOTES
          Please choose your NTP peers carefully; send mail to
          ntp@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU for assitance.

Reed is gatewayed onto NorthWestNet (a part of NSFNET) via a gateway
to washington.edu at ogi.edu.  I've asked for assistance from OGI as
well, but they seem to be busy with finals or something silly like
that.	:-)

Here are my to ntpd configuration files for the moment (following some
of the various README's).  We're only using two local stratum-2 hosts
at the moment (I may add a third when another appropriate machine
arrives).

These machines are running the ntpd supplied with DECstation Ultrix,
by the way.

- romulus:/etc/ntp.conf
	trusting no
	#
	# Primaries
	peer	clepsydra.dec.com
	peer	fuzz.sdsc.edu
	peer	wwvb.erg.sri.com
	#
	# Secondaries
	peer	fuzz.sura.net
	peer	libra.rice.edu
	#
	# Local (secondaries)
	peer	vishnu.reed.edu


- vishnu:/etc/ntp.conf
	trusting no
	#
	# Primaries  
	peer	ncarfuzz.ucar.edu
	peer	norad.arc.nasa.gov
	peer	wwvb.isi.edu
	#
	# Secondaries
	peer	fuzz.psc.edu
	peer	lilben.tn.cornell.edu
	#
	# Local (secondaries)
	peer	romulus.reed.edu

Thanks for your help.