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Re: [Ntp] Antw: Re: Finding leap-seconds.list

Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> Mon, 12 November 2018 17:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Antw: Re: Finding leap-seconds.list
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> On Nov 12, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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> If the need is great enough, it'd be helpful to set up a distribution mechanism for just leap-seconds.list that fulfills NTP's needs better and I could talk to the IANA folks about doing that. Of course iana.org wouldn't want to be overloaded by billions of devices constantly polling it....

There was the case where when the root zone was signed and a specific Apple software update went out they saw a huge number of devices fetching the keys.

I’m sure if there was some significant number of devices that needed it, it might be enough to be noticeable.

I would worry more about that if we had a way to authenticate the source(s) of time though and a client needed to fetch keys for all their sources.

- Jared

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