RE: Recent NTP pool traffic increase

[Emille Blanc <emille () abccommunications com>]

Perhaps the host OS' to which snapchat caters, don't all have a devent ntp subststem available?
I have vague recollections of some other software (I'm sure we all know which) implemented it's own malloc layer for 
every system it ran on, for less trivial reasons. ;)

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From: NANOG [nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Tim Raphael [raphael.timothy () gmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 5:34 PM
To: Gary E. Miller
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase

This was my thought actually, Apple does offer some time services as part of the OS but it’s becoming common with 
larger / more popular apps to provide some of these services internally.
Look at the FB app for example, there are a lot of “system” things they do themselves due to the ability to control 
specifics. Users don’t want to have to install a second “specialised app” for this either.

With regard to an ephemeral chat app requiring time sync, I can think of quite a few use cases and mechanisms in the 
app that might require time services.

- Tim


> On 21 Dec. 2016, at 9:26 am, Gary E. Miller <gem () rellim com> wrote:
>
> Yo Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu!
>
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:20:48 -0500
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:11:11 -0500, Peter Beckman said:
> > > Mostly out of curiosity, what was the reason for the change in the
> > > Snapchat code, and what plans does Snap have for whatever reason
> > > the NTP change was put in place?
> >
> > From other comments in the thread, it sounds like the app was simply
> > linked against a broken version of a library....
>
> But why is a chat app doing NTP at all?  it should rely on the OS, or
> a specialized app, to keep local time accurate.
>
> RGDS
> GARY
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