[time-nuts] On the IETF leap-seconds.list SHA1

[Martin Burnicki]

Am 21.12.2017 um 07:37 schrieb Hal Murray:
>> I am still unable to access the NIST ftp-site linked earlier in this thread.
> 
> There have been several URLs mentioned.
> 
> If you want:
>   ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list
> Try 
>   ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list
> 
> Any attempts at web/ftp-ing to time.nist.gov are very likely to not work.
> Don't waste your time trying.  That's their rotating DNS for NTP servers.
> 
> I think the original plan was to have all the NTP sites mirror the FTP info 
> but it didn't work out.
> 
> 

Indeed, originally the NIST version of the leap second file was made
publicly available via FTP access to each of the NIST time servers.

However, according to a note on
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/services/internet-time-service-its

FTP access to the time servers has been phased out, and all of the
public files including the leap second file have been moved to these
public FTP sites:

ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time (directory listing)
ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list (leap second file)

and

ftp://ftp.boulder.nist.gov/pub/time (directory listing)
ftp://ftp.boulder.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list (leap second file)

Martin