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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
To: Dave Taht <davet@teklibre.net>
Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Starlink] NTP implementations [was: Microstate Accounting and the Nyquist problem]
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:17:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnqryr4h.wl-jch@irif.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0E5C742-37E4-4BF4-B041-EB09E708AFD0@teklibre.net>

> Once upon a time, I sat in esr's basement hearing him rip much crud out of the
> old ntpd codebase over the course of a very few days. The shouts “What?
> WHAAAT?” and most of the other pithy comments he made never made the git log.

Yeah, it's a university project -- generations after generations of
students who hack on the codebase during summer projects.  I have some
experience with such ;-)

> Over the years following the codebase got better and better, but adoption has
> been slow.

The potential userbase might be using chrony, which has set a rather high
bar to compete against (I've seen it behave beautifully on some pretty
broken hardware).

-- Juliusz


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-18 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <baa8ff7a-0bde-9d6e-5984-ef5fcbae5ccd@rogers.com>
2021-06-09 13:15 ` [Starlink] Fwd: Microstate Accounting and the Nyquist problem Dave Taht
2021-06-11 22:14   ` David Collier-Brown
2021-06-11 22:34     ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-11 22:39       ` [Starlink] " Dave Taht
2021-06-11 22:59         ` Nathan Owens
2021-06-11 23:00         ` Dave Taht
2021-06-11 23:09           ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-18 18:17           ` Juliusz Chroboczek [this message]
2021-06-12 14:00         ` Michael Richardson
2021-06-12 16:13           ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-12 16:42             ` Nathan Owens
2021-06-12 19:05               ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-12 19:20                 ` Gary E. Miller
2021-06-12  1:40       ` [Starlink] Fwd: " Karl Auerbach

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