[ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) OptionsforDHCPv6

[Brad Knowles]

On 11/27/07, <anthony.flavin at bt.com> wrote:

>  Completely wrong.

My statement was with regards to most ISPs that I have experience 
with or or where we have had reports from others.

Your specific ISP was not necessarily included in that statement. 
Therefore, your single solitary counter-example does not necessarily 
disprove anything.

>  I can assure you that we do run our own NTP servers, and our customer
>  routers are pre-configured with a Name not an IP address to get to them.
>  We let our DNS servers sort out the load balancing issues (if we ever
>  get any).

You're just one ISP.  You do not comprise the whole of all ISPs on the planet.

>  It's working fine, and several hundred-thousand clients can't be wrong!

And I personally worked at AOL (tens of millions of customers) and 
the largest ISP in Belgium (over a million customers), and I've 
consulted at other ISPs around the world.  We've also had reports 
regarding a number of other ISPs around the world.

Your one counter example does not disprove our experience.

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