paulgear

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   by paulgear 5y ago

   Be nice to my server - try going through cloudfront: 1. https://d38if4m2in2lkc.cloudfront.net/2016/09/the-school-for... 2. https://d38if4m2in2lkc.cloudfront.net/2016/10/the-school-for...
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   by paulgear 10y ago

   NTP does store context for a limited number of clients (600 by default). https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/miscopt.html
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   by paulgear 10y ago

   NTP has rate limiting built into the protocol ( https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/accopt.html ), but Snapchat appear to be using a large list of servers. Also, NTP runs on UDP rather than TCP, and it o
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   by paulgear 10y ago

   Because that's the point of NTP; internally both operating systems use UTC, and in practice most clients can be in sync to within 1 ms or so of the true time, given reasonable connection speed and quality.