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