On Apr 9, 2007, at 11:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have never seen it elsewhere nor have I seen somebody else > pushing for > it since although it seems simple enough to implement and would cut > ntp pool request by a factor of 1,000,000 maybe if everybody > implemented > it (the big providers would be enough).
If the major ISPs actually bothered to provide NTP service for their userbase, the pool would not be under such high load all of the time. For example, that Turkish ISP could use the pool to provide NTP service for a ring of 3 or more NTP servers they run, and have their users hit those servers rather than scattering NTP traffic all over the world. At least at one point, ISPs were expected to provide more than just bare Internet connectivity-- they were supposed to provide working DNS, NTP, SMTP/POP/IMAP, and even NNTP/Usenet feeds. By providing such services locally, they reduced the amount of traffic which had to cross over the MAE/NAP peering points onto other providers, resulting in lower latency for all traffic, as legitimately foreign traffic (like web access which does need to go to the remote server) has less contention. -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
