Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > PHKs recent trouble with D-Link - http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ > - made me change my mind on the pool supporting such vendors. > > Some of my thoughts: > > 1) Better that the vendors use the pool than random s1 servers. > After all, lessening the load on the big s1 servers is the foundation > of the pool project. > > 2) Right now a vendor could just use the pool and I doubt we'd have > much legal standing if we needed to make them stop. With this we can > let them use the pool but only after getting in touch so we will have a > contact there. > > 3) From the data from the d-link requests[1] I'm estimating that they > do around 2000rps -- not a terrifying amount of traffic. It is not > outside what we can support with a bit of contributions as long as we > can manage the traffic with special DNS names (hence the need for a > policy of getting a special setup before using the pool).
Agreed. Agreed. Okay. I read the Vendors doc. I read PHKs account. I also read a short resonse from someone somewhere who stated the proper way for Dlink to implement a time service is that they should have there own time server and hard code that server if they liked. ntp.dlink.com or whatever. Apple does this. Microsoft does this. Tivo does this. They mitigate the high traffic by lengthening the poll interval. Now if we (or Ask) decide to do dlink.pool.ntp.org, we should not take all the resonsibility off the Vendors. They must have something at stake here. Donation of somesort, hardware, programmer time, money, something. They should also dedicate resources to troubleshooting. One thing that I think should be considered is that HARDWARE (e.g. Netgear, Dlink, Linksys routers) that is coded to use the pool should be required to autoregister itself into the pool. This would require a Statement of agreement with TOS to turn it on however. We wouldn't want anyone getting a surprise internet bill in the mail. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
