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NTP itself is not decentralized, but the largest NTP provider is the NTP community pool, www.pool.ntp.org. The pool is operated by MANY PEOPLE IN BASEMENTS AROU
by bcaa7f3a8bbc 8y ago
NTP itself is not decentralized, but the largest NTP provider is the NTP community pool, www.pool.ntp.org. The pool is operated by MANY PEOPLE IN BASEMENTS AROUND THE WORLD, using DNS to distribute the traffic. It's practically pretty robust for most purposes.
However, people just go to a list of NTP servers, then copy a few into the code, instead of using the distributed pool. Then it's not a surprise that the NTP in a product is going to stop working, meanwhile a one very overwhelmed guy who happened to run one of the server is going to have serious troubles, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753835.