On Aug 6, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Rob Janssen wrote: > I don't think they qualify as a vendor. They are an ISP, not an > appliance, OS or software vendor (what is the stated audience in the > vendor FAQ).
Really they don't qualify (or are explicitly named in the vendors faq) because they shouldn't be using the pool. All their users are in a local network, so there's no good reason not to run a local ntpd to use. And besides that: They are distributing an appliance. The idea is if you distribute something with a default configuration you need a vendor pool. Only users manually and explicitly configuring their system should use the regular (non-vendor) pool.ntp.org names. Even the planned DNS improvements wouldn't help us here, because presumably all these appliances (CPEs) are sharing a few DNS servers so they'll keep banging on a small set of NTP servers for minutes at a time (whatever we set the ttl to). - ask -- http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/ _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
