[time] Help wanted - new NTP Pool domains

[Guillaume Filion]

Le 07-06-30, ? 22:23, Philip M. White a ?crit :
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 07:11:52PM -0700, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote:
>> I registered a few new domains to run the NTP infrastructure on (ntp-
>> pool.org, ntppool.org, etc).  Some weeks ago we got the ntpns.org
>> domain too for the nameservers.
>
> I may have missed the discussion about this, in which case I apologize.
> What's an advantage of having multiple domain names for the pool?

There was a discussion about using a different domains for the website 
(www.pool.ntp.org) and the DNS (pool.ntp.org). If my memory serves me 
right, there were a couple reasons given for using a different domain:
- Ease of use. The example given was gmail.com vs www.mail.google.com.
- Consistensy. pool.ntp.org *might* redirect to www.pool.ntp.org, but 
an evil admin might redirect it to an advertising page or worse.
- Security. www.pool.ntp.org uses cookies for long term authentication, 
and sites on pool.ntp.org can read these cookies.

The discussion is quite long (60 messages), but nonetheless interesting:
  http://fortytwo.ch/mailman/pipermail/timekeepers/2007/003091.html

I speculate that ntpns.org has been setup so that it's possible to 
change the nameservers quickly without having to touch the ntp.org 
domain. Ask has direct control over ntpns.org but not ntp.org.

Cheers,
GFK's
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Guillaume Filion
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