On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > 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.
It all makes sense ! Well it doesn't really but it is conform to modern society where we waste valuable resources. In the end, the ISPs can charge more money to their customers for external bandwidth usage. Just like in other fields, we are wasting because somebody makes more money this way. Louis _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
