4 ms·

Randomly dropping a percentage of requests is stateless.

• foepys 10y ago
  But what happens if you are the client whose requests are dropped all the time because you are unlucky?
  • tedunangst 10y ago
    Then I guess you'll have to use somebody else's free server.
• zymhan 10y ago
  Is the NTP synchronization done with only a single packet? Because otherwise you'll be interrupting connections constantly.
  • gpderetta 10y ago
    It is UDP, so it is connectionless.
    • zymhan 10y ago
      UDP is a Transport Layer protocol. NTP is an Application Layer protocol.
      • gpderetta 10y ago
        Fair enough, UDP doesn't imply that the application protocol is connection-less, but AFAIK NTP is.