Does Comcast provide NTP servers? (2nd try)

Dwight A. Ernest dwighternest at gmail.com
Sun Feb 11 14:40:49 EST 2007


On 2/11/07, Dan Ritter <dsr at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:57:56AM -0500, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> > I appreciate previous attempts to help, but I was already aware of the
> > NTP pool servers
> > as well as the claim that Comcast runs NTP on their gateways.  I prefer
> > to not leach NTP off of someone else  (pool servers).
>
> It's not leeching when that's explicitly what they are there
> for. The NTP pool servers are a volunteer community service. If
> you feel bad about using them, why not buy a cheap low-stratum
> time source and join them?


I own & operate one of those pool servers, and I put it up there to be used.
I don't consider such use leaching. And I strongly believe that those of us
who do maintain such ntp pool servers do so in the same spirit. I mean,
otherwise, why do it at all?

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