[Thumbgps-devel] Fwd: [AusNOG] EVERYONE should have a Stratum 1 time server, right?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Dave!

Funny thing, I just checked shipping rate from AU to USA.  A fedEx
envelope fro Sydney to USA is A$92.  About US$62.

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:08:00 -0800
Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Rob Thomas <xrobau at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 12:38 PM
> Subject: [AusNOG] EVERYONE should have a Stratum 1 time server, right?
> To: <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> 
> 
> The good news is, you now can!  After about 6 months of wrangling bits
> and pieces together, "Honest" Rob's Used Car (and VoIP) Emporium has
> finally managed to get a bunch of custom made GPS Shields built and
> they are sitting right next to me here in Australia, suitable for
> lego-esque construction of your own NTP server!
> 
> These are being sold at pretty much cost - AUD$30 ex - as a pro-bono
> thing for those who want their very own Stratum 1 NTP server. All you
> need to do is supply your own Raspberry Pi or equivalent - you just
> need something with a clock speed over 1ghz and standard GPIO pins.
> 
> But wait, there's more! You don't NEED to buy this specific hardware -
> if you already have a GPS device with a PPS signal, you can just fork
> and hack on the repo that started this:
> 
> https://github.com/xrobau/rpi-ntp  (Note: that locks down SSH to key
> only, and *only* puts my key in there, don't just run it blindly
> without at least adding your ssh pubkey!)
> 
> This all started because we needed more IPv6 NTP servers in the Asia
> Pacific region, and it was annoyingly hard to find plug-and-play
> hardware. I'm really hoping that a bunch of you lot will buy a few,
> and put them up as public servers with IPv6 addresses on ntppool.org.
> 
> https://freepbxhosting.com.au/s/gps-v1/
> 
> I also have them up on eBay, for $40 each, but that's for the public,
> not for the cool kids club that is AusNog.
> 
> Currently I can only ship to AU and NZ, but that's purely because I'm
> lazy and haven't figured out the costs. For those outside the North,
> South and West islands of New Zealand, feel free to reach out to me
> off list with your address and I'll figure something out.
> 
> --"Honest" Rob
> 
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RGDS
GARY
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