[ntp:questions] Should ntpd log failure to syslog?
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Fri Dec 12 15:47:27 UTC 2008
Hal Murray wrote:
>> I think you are assuming here, that the servers will fail one by one
>> with no one noticing or correcting the problems. This scenario seems
>> rather unlikely to me. Any publicly available server has hundreds or
>> even thousands of clients keeping an eye on it. If it goes belly up the
>> failure will surely be noticed.
>
> What if the "failure" is the company going out of business
> or a policy change or ...
>
>
IF I depended on servers owned/operated by a single company, I might
worry about it.
If the U.S. Government goes belly up, I'll have more serious problems!
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