"unruh" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 2013-01-26, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

>> [...] I obviously don't want to hard-code for a specific time server
>> because things could change after the user gets my app and it is
>> unfair to send a whole block of users to the same server.  The
>> Server Pool looks promising.  Does pool.ntp.org just behave like a
>> Stratum 2 server so I could hard-code that URL into my implementation
>> of NTP in my app? ...

[...]
> And no you definitely should not hard code a site, unless it is one
> controlled by you. [...]
> Note pool.ntp.org does NOT have an IP-- each dns request gives a
> different IP, so you need the name, not an IP.

Which is exactly why hardcoding pool.ntp.org _is_ allowable, in my
opinion - and in fact indicated in such a case as this. Exactly because
(as I suspect you meant) it is not a fixed site, but a symbolic name
that translates to some reasonable site that is available now.

Incidentally, to the OP, it's not a URL. It is a DNS name.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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