[HECnet] A USNO GPS network time server is now in operation at Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

[David Moylan]

That IP address space is now owned by HP and this NTP host is now known as usno.hpl.hp.com

Side note: the dec.com domain name was sold by HP and is now owned by Paul Kocher. 
(He's one of the people that discovered the Spectre vulnerability in x86 CPU's.)

I've been in touch with Paul about dec.com and he told me that he's not interested in selling it or passing it across to any related hobbyist group.
He advised me that he'd purchased it from HP when it was auctioned off.

According to the records, the domain dec.com was sold by Heritage Auctions on July 24th 2014 for $57,500.

In the same auction another person purchased digital.com for $373,750

Cheers, Wiz!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On
> Behalf Of Supratim Sanyal
> Sent: Sunday, 21 November 2021 9:34 AM
> To: hecnet at update.uu.se
> Subject: [HECnet] A USNO GPS network time server is now in operation at
> Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
> 
> "A USNO GPS network time server is now in operation at Digital Equipment
> Corporation, Palo Alto, CA. This is an open-access stratum-1 for the Pacific
> Timezone:
> usno.pa-x.dec.com     204.123.2.72 (CNAME ntp-dec.usno.navy.mil)"
> 
> 204.123.2.72 still returns time as stratum 1.
> 
> usno.pa-x.dec.com and ntp-dec.usno.navy.mil do not resolve.
> 
> Ref: March 1997 revision of:
> http://gisweb.massey.ac.nz/topic/webreferencesites/gps/usnavy/ntp.html