-------- In message <20150114115758.gvgcdclg%[email protected]>, Steffen Nurpmeso write s: >"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> wrote: > |-------- > |In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes: > | > |>> About one year ago I contacted the folks at IERS and asked them to put > |>> an expiration date into their leap second file since the existing one > |>> didn't have one. > | > |What would be really useful would be if they provided the current > |leapsecond count and the date of the next (if known) via DNS. > | > |DNS because it has built in caching and works almost everywhere. > >Or a new NTP protocol, that would only require a software update >of NTP servers.
NTP is a much more specialized protocol than DNS and it is blocked a lot of places. >The current one is obsolete anyway in ~20 years, The new one is called PTP, but there's probably 30 years of life left in NTP still. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
