In the ARC review of the GNOME system tools project this week, one of the issues raised was the hardcoded list of public NTP servers used in the Date & Time panel.
I suggested both that a better default was pool.ntp.org and that the good community citizen thing to do would be to have Sun provide servers to the ntp pool as well as using them. Digging a bit further into the stats on http://www.pool.ntp.org I noticed that there seems to be low coverage in some places where there are active OpenSolaris User Groups. For instance, these areas have one or more OSUG's listed on the user group community on opensolaris.org, but few ntp pool servers listed: China — cn.pool.ntp.org (2) India — in.pool.ntp.org (0) Australia — au.pool.ntp.org (20) Argentina — ar.pool.ntp.org (3) Brazil — br.pool.ntp.org (5) Venezuela - none Turkey — tr.pool.ntp.org (1) Would it make sense to have the various worldwide user groups work with their local Sun offices to set up local NTP pool servers so that their local user community can get better time service? [Disclaimer: this is just an idea I had - I cannot commit the local Sun offices to doing this, but for the cost of a bottom-end Ultra 20 and a little bandwidth, it would seem to be a fairly low cost community outreach/benefit they could be providing. Or perhaps a low-end rack mount server with one zone running the NTP pool service and another running a web site or other services for the User Group.] -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
