[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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