On Dec 24, 2009, at 7:36 AM, der Mouse wrote: > Well, I think at least some of the poolkeepers are in the USA, so > they'd be stupid not to have at least investigated it a little.
Well, then I guess I'm stupid. And I intend to remain so. I find this concern silly, but I do understand that the boss requires an answer. Certainly anyone can sue anyone for anything. But winning a suit is another matter. Given the nature of the service that pool members are providing along with clients' abilities to weed out false tickers, the only way I think I could be successfully sued is if I were to deliberately poison what I serve up. Even then, the system as a whole should be resilient. (To even begin to get away with this, I would have to respond correctly to queries from the pool monitoring system while providing false responses to other clients). Anyway, for the original poster, I would tell the boss that both ntp clients and the pool monitoring mechanism have built in tools to exclude false tickers from messing with anyone's time. So even if their pool contribution goes bad, it is unlikely to ever cause anyone grief. Cheers -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
