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by vidarh
4118 days ago
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The server you are showing is a stratum 1 time source intended for LAN use. It's not at all a given (and arguably not likely) that it would be suitable for exposing directly on the public internet to handle high traffic volumes. If not, then that means putting an ntpd in front of it, talking to it over the LAN, in which case you no longer have a stratum 1 time source available publicly. I everyone had boxes like this, then yes, great, we'd not need reliable publicly accessible stratum 1 servers. But most people don't. |
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Um. We have "reliable publicly accessible stratum 1 servers".
Regardless of what happens with the NTPd software, Google will probably continue to provide time1-4.google.com.
NIST will not shut down their timeservers.
And the 3654 servers in pool.ntp.org[1] (which seems to be maintained by a different guy) also won't just disappear overnight, though I'm not sure if these are Stratum 1 (probably not).
I still don't understand what exactly this guy is doing that should cost more than the $7k/mo that he's getting, much less the "$X0 million a year" that vinceguidry wants to allocate to the task.
[1] http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone