Rick Jones <rick.jon...@hp.com> writes: >Unruh <unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote: >> "Wilson R. Afonso" <wafo...@csse.unimelb.edu.au> writes: >> >The Department of Computer Science of the University of Melbourne >> >has for many years hosted the stratum 1 NTP server at >> >ntp.cs.mu.oz.au. This service is heavily used, with requests coming >> >from all corners of the world; it responds to approximately 500 >> >requests per second on average.
>> >This service will be discontinued from 01 January 2010. We no >> >longer have the capability (budget and manpower) to maintain the >> >service in its current state, and rather than letting it degrade >> >and fail, we're bringing it down in a controlled manner. >> To bad. But I am wondering what the manpower requirements are? You >> have GPS receivers and they would not seem to me to require must >> maintainance. >We may all be at least idly curious as to the why, but it seems that >it would be better to thank Wilson and the University of Melbourne for >their service to the community and wish them well. Our's is not to >second guess their decision. Agreed. But I am curious, since I do not see much demand on capability to hosting such a server, so the reason he gives is puzzling. It may be that the administration thinks that hosting such a server is a high capabilities job. Or it could be that they lost the person who really knew ntp and noone else feels comfortable supporting it. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
