time.mattrude.com

Welcome to my public timeserver. This site, time.mattrude.com, is a cluster of two ntp timeservers hosted by Rackspace in Dallas TX.

pool.ntp.org

These servers are part of the NTP Pool and are avalable to the public for synchronizing computer time over the internet. Please do not directly configure a system to only use these servers.

The NTP Pool project is a big virtual cluster of timeservers providing reliable easy to use NTP service for millions of clients.

The pool is being used by millions or tens of millions of systems around the world. It's the default "time server" for most of the major Linux distributions and many networked appliances.

Server Status

Both of these servers are running as stratum 2 timeservers, with a maximum offset of 10ms.

You may also view the current status of Kirby & Twyla's client files, or the pool's running status.

Acceptable use policy

Who may use these servers?

Desktops and laptops
Your own home router
Equipment normally found in a server room, such as servers, enterprise routers (not consumer products), SANs etc.

How you may use these servers

These servers are only intended for use by system administrators configuring NTP clients or Desktop User configuring their own equipment. They must not be used by equipment manufacturers or systems integrators selling kit preconfigured to use these servers.

iburst may be used
burst may not be used
minpoll/maxpoll may not be changed below the defaults of 64 seconds and 1024 seconds respectively
Clients should honor the KOD message
Time Server IP addresses may not be hard-coded in any hardware, firmware, or software without advance explicit written permission from the time server operator
Time Server DNS addresses should not be hard-coded in any hardware, firmware, or softrware without advance explicit written permission from the time server operator

Please note

I make no guarantee as to the accuracy or availability of these NTP servers.
I may choose at any time to restrict access to networks or rate limit or block any network, host, or IP address.