-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a Speedstream 5100b DSL modem provided by my ISP > (a major telco). Looking at its internal settings (which I > have no way to modify), I see it synchronizes its own internal > notion of time with two restricted-access stratum-1 NTP servers. > Isn't this a first-class bad idea, considering the load this > would impose as the telco tries to sign up millions of customers? >
Well what we don't know here seems to include: NTP or SNTP - if it's a one time or once a week sntp query then all may be well. Who owns the S1 servers - assuming they are either telco or modem maker supplied then perhaps they have done the traffic engineering to make it work right. Are the "two" S1 servers really two box or are they two clusters of boxes (good for sntp bad for ntp). In other words this could all be fine or it could be a really bad thing (tm) depending on lots of stuff we don't know. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCzd1/aVyA7PElsKkRAmrgAKDxA9A/yHykPpSXEGLsPZxqNKYrvwCfQn31 A+WmxefrjW4EPywb3nlOwkI= =53LY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
