[193133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Dec 20 22:42:13 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Keenan Tims <ktims@stargate.ca>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <f0e21ab3-0efc-681f-f40a-21e2d46e4db5@stargate.ca>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:42:05 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:41:37 -0800, Keenan Tims said:
> Better for whom? I'm sure all mobile operating systems provide some
> access to time, with a least 'seconds' resolution. If an app deems this
> time source untrustworthy for some reason, I don't think the reasonable
> response is to make independent time requests from a volunteer-operated
> pool for public servers designed for host synchronization.
This is possibly at least partly due to "dependency hell".
For a worked example from earlier this year:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
So a lot of people had their stuff blow up, even though their code
called left_pad exactly noplace....
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