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- This is not a great idea. Pre-2000 GPS time server firmwares do no handle leap seconds properly.by RachelF
- After the Telstra NTS issue and preparing for the upcoming summer storms and power outages, I set up a chrony mesh on three devices, each with a different upstream stratum 1 NTS. I seriously considered a GPS reference too, but I live on the bottom floor of apartment blocks so reception is probably quite poor. After blocking the firewall ports, the mesh stays linked and drift is well within sensible boundaries for the typical length of internet and power outages of a few hours. Although, a man with a watch knows the time but man with two watches cannot be certain.
- I have a GPS based PTP server, the antenna is indoors 15 feet away from a south facing window, it locks on pretty well (though this will probably depend on the surrounding buildings)by Palomides
- This sounds pretty interesting - what are you working on where it's necessary to maintain this level of time precision? I've worked on positioning systems where it's obviously important, but it never mattered much at homeby anitil
- The author is not rebuilding anything, they just stuck a Raspberry Pi in the case.by aeyes
- Yeah, I got recommended this video and felt very clickbaited and stopped watching when he mentioned that he's just replacing the innards with a Pi. Incredibly lame.
- They kept the LCD dot matrix character display, the dual-color status LED, and the chassis. All of the other original guts remain in-place; it's completely reversible and no new holes were made.
I agree that rebuilding is an awkward fit here. Repurposing fits better in some ways and worse in others.
edit: Maybe retromod works. New stuff in an old box, with continuation of parts of the original vibe.
by ssl-3 - On Telstra, they brought in an external auditor and the report was recently release:
* Post: https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/what-we-ve-learned-from-...
* Report: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...
by throw0101a - Thanks for sharing that I'm very interested to read the auditor's results
Edit: That's it!? It's also not clear on whether it was a configuration or a firmware issue (or both). It sounds like maybe there was some battery backed ram or something that reset maybe?
Edit number 2: Ok I re-read it and it is better than I thought, still many questions though.
by anitil