"Hal Murray" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>> I think you are assuming here, that the servers will fail one by one >> with no one noticing or correcting the problems. This scenario seems >> rather unlikely to me. Any publicly available server has hundreds or >> even thousands of clients keeping an eye on it. If it goes belly up >> the failure will surely be noticed. > > What if the "failure" is the company going out of business > or a policy change or ... ...Or a change of IP address. Or what I think might be the worst one: your own NTP server accidentally running into a transient 1001-second offset and exiting. A year ago. (Sure it's unlikely. But how do you *know*? Answer: through monitoring.) Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
