I was wondering, how many people, businesses, etc depend on the Public
NTP Pool vs. private NTP servers?
I don't think this can be realistically described as "vs.". Instead, all
time servers (pool or private) ultimately depend on stratum 1 servers,
which, in turn, ultimately depend on government atomic clocks (either
the official time standard, or secondary services such as GPS).
So this entire infrastructure really is a public service in its core.
Breaking it further down is inherently difficult. Some organizations may
synchronize entire networks indirectly from the pool, e.g. by having
a Windows doain controller synchronize with the pool, and then
distribute time locally. Would you account that as depending on the
pool, or using private NTP servers?
Regards,
Martin
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