On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 11:02:15PM +0300, Cengiz Can wrote: > 1) Does Google allow their time servers to be directly used?
I believe so. I couldn't immediately find anything on their website that said differently. > 2) Can we apply for a vendor name like "oe" so at least they can > throttle/rate limit their inbound traffic? I guess the OpenEmbedded corporate entity could apply for one. I don't actually know what the current organisation is; the website just says "OpenEmbedded is a Texas-registered company. More details to follow." Mostly though I think this is a distro configuration issue and ought to be addressed there. > Because at current state, timesyncd is unreliable and doesn't have sane > defaults enabled. pool.ntp.org is a community effort but has thousands of > servers that are available for service. Not just 4 Google controlled > servers. I'm fairly sure that time.google.com has more than four servers (they are load-balanced behind a single public IP, just like the Google nameserver 8.8.4.4 is not a single machine either). It's not completely obvious to me that pool.ntp.org is generally more available. The Google servers also do leap smearing which might or might not be a good thing depending on your point of view. I'm not sure whether the pool.ntp.org ones do the same thing or not. p. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
