[136375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Feb 2 15:24:59 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <25893.1296675734@localhost>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:18:44 -0800
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:45:46 -1000, Antonio Querubin said:
>> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>>=20
>>> different networks, things don't always work so well. I may want to =
use=20
>>> the DHCP-provided NTP servers at work, but syncing with a random NTP=20=
>>> server when I connect to a wifi hotspot is not such a great idea.
>>=20
>> It's not "random" if the network operator is providing it via DHCP is =
it?
>=20
> If you're connecting at a Starbuck's, and you care more than =
"hopefully
> somebody will tell me the right time within a minute", yes, it *is* =
essentially
> random.
While that is true, the people that are asking for the ability to =
advertise
NTP servers in DHCP are not running the networks at Starbucks.
Owen
