[xenophonf]

> Gladly NTP is not the mythical voodoo rocket science that you make it out to be.

Neither is DNS, but running the root DNS infrastructure (which serve hundreds of millions of users) is a wee bit more complicated than hosting forward lookup zones or even a public caching resolver on a handful of corporate nameservers. So too with the stratum-1 and stratum-2 NTP servers that serve as national or regional standards. They are not simple bits of kit that one throws together and shoves onto the public Internet, especially when they are ultimately used by just about every modern Internet-connected computer out there. That this guy's doing not only all of the software/release engineering but also operating some critical time servers for USD 84000 per year is too good of a deal to be true---and that he's running through his personal savings to finance the NTP project is just shameful on the IT community's (our) part.