>> 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. > > Yes it would be better, but...
And it would assume that good time servers are equally distributed across the globe. They're not. >> Have you phoned your ISP to ask if they provide time services ? > > Not directly applicable in my case; I work for my ISP. But I was at > one point with Sympatico, and, while I never had occasino to ask them > about NTP, I did have occasion to try to get straight answers to simple > technical questions out of their "customer service" people. Based on > the (non-)results I got, I would be surprised if an end-user were able > to reach anyone who even knew what NTP is. I did try to call to find out about NTP services at the last ISP I had. They didn't have a clue what I was talking about and kept saying that they don't provide FTP servers. sjm _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
