[ntp:questions] NEW Public Stratum 1 NTP server (Portugal)

Rob nomail at example.com
Fri Oct 14 08:31:25 UTC 2011


Miguel Gonçalves <mail at miguelgoncalves.com> wrote:
> On 13 October 2011 22:08, David Lord <snews at lordynet.org> wrote:
>> Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It can also be a gateway for an internal network with your
>>>> server being polled by all the clients on that network.
>>>
>>> I believe not everyone has the skill to install a local NTP server and
>>> point all the clients to it but I configured my server with
>>>
>>
>> You missed my point in that there can be many ntp clients
>> using a single ip address to poll your server.
>
> No... I understood... I was just pointing out that the correct way
> would be to install a local NTP server but not everyone has the
> skill/knowledge to do that.

Maybe home- and small business routers should have a more or less
automatically functioning transparent proxy for NTP, much like they
often have for DNS.
(it will probably have just as many implementation problems as those
DNS services usually have, but it would cut down on traffic)



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