[AusNOG] Telstra outage?

[Karl von Muller]

Would PTP be a better solution for someone like Telstra who heavily relies
on very accurate time?

On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 at 19:55, Narelle Clark <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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