ntp.ubuntulinux.org? (was: Race condition during startup?)

martin f krafft madduck at debian.org
Sat Oct 1 20:18:45 CDT 2005


also sprach Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> [2005.10.02.0120 +0200]:
> But with that said, having every single computer with ubuntu installed
> by default pinging a single ubuntu server at every boot via ntp seems to
> be a great opportunity and/or big-brother'ish way to get good statistics
> of how many (and who) uses Ubuntu in the world.

... and that's only one reason why a single NTP server is a bad
idea.

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