Re: [gpsd-dev] Moving ntpd to an open VCS

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Sanjeev!

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 02:25:26 +0800
Sanjeev Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> > Which is why ubuntu and a few other other large folks should do so.
> 
> 
> But Ubuntu does not have a /21 or so, and is unlikely to get one from
> RIPE just to run a couple of NTP servers.  And they probably
> renegotiate their data center contracts annually, so their IP
> addresses change.

Well that is just silly.  If I can have to /24's they can certainly get
a /24 somehow.

> And the day Mark decides to shutdown Canonical, Linux Mint desktops
> lose NTP service :-)


Yup. So do not code just a single ntpd service.

We have defined multicast IPs, why not a defined and reserved ntpd
multicast IP?  Might be a little late to get one in IPv4, but ARIN
might want to give an IPv6 one to help botstrap IPv6 use.

RGDS
GARY
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