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A comment on Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs. Parent comment

Re:Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs by Avamander on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:47AM (#22414062)
Same with NTP surprisingly. Literally everything I have talks to a NTP server once in a while, but only Linux machines actually ask the network's NTP servers.
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Re:Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs by tbyehl on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:17AM (#22414380)
Lots of embedded Linux devices have hardcoded NTP servers. Was caught by surprise at this after I'd segregated a bunch of stuff to have no Internet access.
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Re:Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs by Avamander on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:48AM (#22414683)
Absolutely, but I found it surprising that even my Kindle contacts an NTP server, or that both Android and Apple phones do.

Why don't they ask DHCP for a nice stratum 1 server instead, I don't know, maybe someone here does?

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