On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 07:53:24PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 05:46:19PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Well, while it is certainly nice to be resiliant to such things, I am > > not convinced though that for a normal client this is really a > > necessity. The commonly used NTP servers are good enough for most > > cases and are used in SNTP mode by a multitude of devices and > > operating systems > > Which major operating systems do use by default a SNTP client with > pool.ntp.org? Microsoft and Apple use SNTP, but they have their own > trusted NTP servers. In the Linux world, I think the most popular > choice is the reference NTP implementation and on smaller devices it's > the busybox NTP client. It seems I was wrong here. Mac OS X apparently uses the reference NTP implementation modified to work in combination with another daemon called pacemaker, which adjusts the clock [1] and the w32time service used in Windows does implement the NTP algorithms [2]. It looks like pretty much everyone has a full NTP client running on their system, I'm sure we don't want Fedora to be the exception. [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/pacemaker.8.html [2] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773013%28v=ws.10%29.aspx -- Miroslav Lichvar -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
