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 wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Rob Thomas > Date: Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 12:38 PM > Subject: [AusNOG] EVERYONE should have a Stratum 1 time server, right? > To: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > AusNOG@ausnog.net > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > > RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588 Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas? "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." - Lord Kelvin