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So frustrated that Cloudflare didn't just add resources/support the existing NTP Pool. Hard to even pretend their motives are altruistic at this point.

• privateSFacct 7y ago
  Disgusting that supposed "hackers" and experts on hackernews advocate for single point of failures in the internet infrastructure. The internet is supposed to be distributed. If the NTP pool admins go nuts, have a fight etc, I'm glad there is an alternative. You can generally specify multiple sources, this would be a new source. And it's always the BS "they're evil" argument - when the posters contribute nothing themselves to progress. Frustrating indeed.
  • Avamander 7y ago
    I don't get it either to be honest. If the software is free (as in freedom) then there's practically no lock-in or lock-out. NTP people could also provide roughtime watchdogs/time to get their time to more people.
  • michaelmior 7y ago
    Isn't the whole point of the NTP pool that there isn't a single point of failure? (Assuming of course you're using multiple servers from the pool.)
    • jerf 7y ago
      In a technical sense, yes. But privateSFacct is referring to non-technical single points of failure. Another example would be governmental capture of some chunk of the current NTP admins or something. An organization, by its nature, is vulnerable to some potential single point of failure. Low probability, sure, but having a competing organization ready to step in can actually help keep that probability low by keeping the focus on.
    • privateSFacct 7y ago
      Most are still vulnerable to their domain going away, rouge admin, hacked admins, payment issues for a core service etc.