On Apr 19, 2006, at 8:39 AM, Nelson Minar wrote:
Thanks for taking this issue on, Ask. The central thing in your doc that seems most important is that hardware vendors are told not to hardcode pool.ntp.org addresses into their systems, but instead point to their own DNS which then could possibly use the pool. That one level of indirection will allow all sorts of mischief to be corrected. It'd really suck if the name "pool.ntp.org" were lost.
Yes, that was one of my primary motivations.
I agree with Eugene we should ask vendors to contribute to the pool if they rely on us for time service. I think it's totally unworkable to require the end devices themselves to join the pool though. What I'd like to see a company like Dlink do is contribute servers and/or finances to the pool. In a casual way; the moment a contract or lawyer is involved it will be a failure. In the past NTP has mostly survived because some smart sysadmin in the back room has done the sensible thing (with two notable exceptions). I think just documenting what the sensible thing is will continue to work.
I wholeheartedly agree with all of the above. - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
