[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, der Mouse wrote: > OK here is an example to inspire yourself and help you understand; Look at > the DNS system. It is "simple and beautiful" and works fine according to > me. No need for volunteers in a pool of DNS servers to handle the load. > > Why is that ? Because DNS is more critical than time for the Internet to > function properly and yes like in the big projects I have worked on, it is > top-down and it is imposed. > > What is so different about ntp ? After all we do a simple lookup for time. > It is very similar than doing a lookup for an IP address.
There is a major difference between DNS and time. DNS operates on the idea that the user wants a result from one server. NTP operates on the idea that we want to compare the results from several sources. I wouldn't trust a time system with only one link. Diversity is what makes the system robust. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
