[193127] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Raphael)
Tue Dec 20 20:35:45 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Tim Raphael <raphael.timothy@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161220172623.0af945c8@spidey.rellim.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:34:25 +0800
To: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
This was my thought actually, Apple does offer some time services as =
part of the OS but it=E2=80=99s becoming common with larger / more =
popular apps to provide some of these services internally.
Look at the FB app for example, there are a lot of =E2=80=9Csystem=E2=80=9D=
things they do themselves due to the ability to control specifics. =
Users don=E2=80=99t want to have to install a second =E2=80=9Cspecialised =
app=E2=80=9D for this either.
With regard to an ephemeral chat app requiring time sync, I can think of =
quite a few use cases and mechanisms in the app that might require time =
services.
- Tim
> On 21 Dec. 2016, at 9:26 am, Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> wrote:
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> Yo Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu!
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> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:20:48 -0500
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:11:11 -0500, Peter Beckman said:
>>> Mostly out of curiosity, what was the reason for the change in the
>>> Snapchat code, and what plans does Snap have for whatever reason
>>> the NTP change was put in place? =20
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>> =46rom other comments in the thread, it sounds like the app was =
simply
>> linked against a broken version of a library....
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> But why is a chat app doing NTP at all? it should rely on the OS, or
> a specialized app, to keep local time accurate.
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> RGDS
> GARY
> =
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