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Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:42:05 -0500
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:41:37 -0800, Keenan Tims said:
Better for whom? I'm sure all mobile operating systems provide some access to time, with a least 'seconds' resolution. If an app deems this time source untrustworthy for some reason, I don't think the reasonable response is to make independent time requests from a volunteer-operated pool for public servers designed for host synchronization.
This is possibly at least partly due to "dependency hell". For a worked example from earlier this year: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ So a lot of people had their stuff blow up, even though their code called left_pad exactly noplace....
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