[AusNOG] Telstra outage?

[Narelle Clark]

NTP is observably fundamentally flawed. It's good, but drifts and has
issues.

Here is a talk given to IAA members by an academic who has been measuring
it for 20yrs: https://internet.asn.au/events/online_convergent_event_2/

The in person version had us all riveted.

Narelle
narellec at gmail.com

On Tue, 14 July 2026, 7:23 pm Ross Wheeler, <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2026, Mark Smith wrote:
>
> > So it seems a "nice to have" upstream NTP service that wasn't accurate
> > and people didn't really care about became a need to be accurate on a
> > network access device.
>
> This might sound conceited but I've never trusted "upstream" anythings
> because I don't know how (or IF) they give a damn, unfortunately often
> it's "we don't".
>
> If it's technically and financially PRACTICAL for me to do it in-house, I
> do. Always have. Because *I* care about me and I know very few others do.
>
> R.
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