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299 points gastonmorixe | 5 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mhovd ◴[12 Nov 25 10:53 UTC] No.45898645[source]▶
I am surprised that NTP project is not funded, fully or partially, by larger organizations or governments, given the criticality of the project.
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1. littlestymaar ◴[12 Nov 25 11:55 UTC] No.45899060[source]▶
Large tech companies and free-riding critical internet commons, name a better duo.
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2. aembleton ◴[12 Nov 25 13:08 UTC] No.45899679[source]▶
Itchy and Scratchy
3. shaky-carrousel ◴[12 Nov 25 13:11 UTC] No.45899716[source]▶
That would be easily solved by blocking from NTP any ip address belonging to a big tech corp that doesn't pony up.
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4. ralferoo ◴[12 Nov 25 13:50 UTC] No.45900151[source]▶
Not really. The biggest drain on resources historically has come from things like routers that have fixed NTP servers hardcoded in the firmware and every customer ends up using just that one without even knowing they're contributing to the problem. They also can't be blocked as the requests could come from anywhere.
5. Aurornis ◴[12 Nov 25 14:16 UTC] No.45900475[source]▶
The big companies have their own NTP pools and even implementations.

You can use the public Google or AWS pools if you want. Note that they have their own software, too, so be sure you understand the differences like leap smearing.

Blocking FAANG IPs from the NTP Foundation’s pools wouldn’t hurt FAANG at all. It would only hurt people who weren’t aware and used the NTP Foundation’s pool for things.