On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Tom Hek wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> NTP is a mess and nobody seems to care. Like a timekeeper list poster >> mentioned this week; It makes him feel "important" to serve time to a >> bunch of people and there is no other valid reason to be a member of the >> pool beside the fun of experimenting, watching the traffic and maintaining >> stats. > > I don't feel important when I'm serving time. I'm just doing it because > I love to volunteer for other people. I'm not doing it because I want to > experiment with NTP, but because I want to help people out. > > Not everyone wants money for their services.. I'm just seeing serving > time as a nice thing to do for the Internet community ;). >
That's the main question, are you really helping people and the Internet globally by letting people from the other side of the planet connect to your server to get time. Wouldn't the Internet be better off if everybody was connecting to a server close to him. Ideally, we should have a network divided into independent pyramids (stratum 1s on top). Right now, there is all kinds of cross-links between the pyramids and that's why I say ntp is a mess and I have come to ask myself if the pool was really helping things out. In general, there is a lot of well intentioned people that do not really help but make matter worse. I am not saying it is the case for the pool but it is worth questioning ourselves. Only fools do not question themselves and never change their opinion on a subject. Louis http://blogtech.oc9.com _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
