Re:NTP's Fate Hinges on 'Father Time'
by moe on Thursday March 12, 2015 @11:05AM
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I everyone had boxes like this, then yes, great, we'd not need reliable publicly accessible stratum 1 servers. But most people don't.
Um. We have "reliable publicly accessible stratum 1 servers".
Regardless of what happens with the NTPd software, Google will probably continue to provide time1-4.google.com.
NIST will not shut down their timeservers.
And the 3654 servers in pool.ntp.org[1] (which seems to be maintained by a different guy) also won't just disappear overnight, though I'm not sure if these are Stratum 1 (probably not).
I still don't understand what exactly this guy is doing that should cost more than the $7k/mo that he's getting, much less the "$X0 million a year" that vinceguidry wants to allocate to the task.
Um. We have "reliable publicly accessible stratum 1 servers".
Regardless of what happens with the NTPd software, Google will probably continue to provide time1-4.google.com.
NIST will not shut down their timeservers.
And the 3654 servers in pool.ntp.org[1] (which seems to be maintained by a different guy) also won't just disappear overnight, though I'm not sure if these are Stratum 1 (probably not).
I still don't understand what exactly this guy is doing that should cost more than the $7k/mo that he's getting, much less the "$X0 million a year" that vinceguidry wants to allocate to the task.
[1] http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone