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Tom Hek wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> NTP is a mess and nobody seems to care. Like a timekeeper list poster >> mentioned this week; It makes him feel "important" to serve time to a >> bunch of people and there is no other valid reason to be a member of the >> pool beside the fun of experimenting, watching the traffic and maintaining >> stats. > > I don't feel important when I'm serving time. I'm just doing it because > I love to volunteer for other people. I'm not doing it because I want to > experiment with NTP, but because I want to help people out. > > Not everyone wants money for their services.. I'm just seeing serving > time as a nice thing to do for the Internet community ;). > > Aggreed. The whole motivation in the beginning was that I had a server at a datacenter, it has a static ip, I want to keep accurate time on it, and ntp doesn't use much traffic and can help out a lot. In theory I probably should be using st2 servers instead of st1, but then I figure I'm currently serving ~4500 clients (and like the 20 or so servers we use at work) so I don't consider it that bad. I'm amazed when on my other machines, which query the pool, and I've seen st1 servers listed on there. But yeah, you should definitely get the permission of the st1 admin before using them. It's what makes the hunt for good servers so time consuming because I look for st1 servers in my area and then if they are listed as "restrictedaccess" make sure I get permission before really using it (I'll still do various checks on latency and stuff). Most of the time I just look for the open access ones so I can at least add it and see if it's a good server for a couple days before I let the admin know. Which is also probably why they are varying so much recently from the slashdot effect and everyone going "I'm going to connect st1 server, and these are openaccess" I have considered being a st1 server, but the problem is I'm inside a secured building.. so GPS is out of the question. CDMA would work as I get full strength in there, but those units are a lot more expensive. - -- Todd http://www.vrillusions.com/ My PGP Key ID: 0xBC90230C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG9AYwiSebwryQIwwRAm1TAKCi7tTFwVODgIltwxXyUR05aUKzpwCbBLpZ MT08komYf1VPT/8YiDgIG6Q= =ifkX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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