on 3/16/09 11:28 PM, [email protected] said: > it makes blanket statements about what's best and what's worthless, but > without any justification other than 'because I say so'
Unless you want to get into a detailed discussion of the algorithms and protocols that have been developed over the past thirty years, and you've got Ph.D.s in several different fields of mathematics or you can naturally operate at that level because you're incredibly gifted when it comes to math, and you've written whole treatises on subjects such as the Byzantine Agreement Algorithm, then that's really the best that any of us can hope for. Otherwise, we'll lock you in a windowless room with Dr. Mills, and won't let either of you out until someone screams "Uncle!" And that's a fate I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, much less a winner of the Fields Medal. > I think that the suggestions that it's making are reasonable for the > situation it's targeted at (which as the subject says is 'selecting > _OFFSITE_ ntp servers' It's useful for any situation where you are configuring clients to use lower stratum NTP servers (possibly Stratum 1). > as long as you stop claiming that everyone should do exactly what you > think is best (and there are never any situations where your > off-the-cuff advice could be wrong), that's fine with me. Thing is, what's on those pages is not off-the-cuff. It's been developed over years, and refined many times with input from many different experts on the subject. You'd know that if you bothered to check the revision history for that page. As such, any guidance given based on what's on those pages is likewise not off-the-cuff, regardless of how little credit you may give it because you don't like the way it's delivered and you don't like the title. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bigsbytracks _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
