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NTP Pool Reaches 1000 Servers, Needs More

Posted by kdawson on from the if-you-got-the-money-honey-i-got-the-time dept.

hgerstung writes "This weekend the NTP Pool Project reached the milestone of 1000 servers in the pool. That means that in less than two years the number of servers has doubled. This is happy news, but the 'time backbone' of the Internet, provided for free by volunteers operating NTP servers, requires still more servers in order to cope with the demand. Millions of users are synchronizing their PC's system clock from the pool and a number of popular Linux distributions are using the NTP pool servers as a time source in their default ntp configuration. If you have a static IP address and your PC is always connected to the Internet, please consider joining the pool. Bandwidth is not an issue and you will barely notice the extra load on your machine."

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  1. Google by Seumas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This sounds like a job for Google.

    Seriously. They are working to own every other bit of information. Why not "own" the method by which machines maintain time by throwing a thousand machines at it (an insignificant number compared to the 500k or more that make up their own server farm).

  2. huh? by adamruck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Bandwidth is not an issue and you will barely notice the extra load on your machine."

    If that is the case, why do they need more servers?

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