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Choose a more reliable network clock source for the CI #78977

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In #63511, we added a clock drift check using the Date: of http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt as reference. However, the reply is extremely unreliable recently (?), so we can't use it to detect any drift at all.

$ date -u; curl -fs --head http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt | grep Date
Thu Nov 12 10:49:23 UTC 2020
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:48:07 GMT

$ date -u; curl -fs --head http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt | grep Date
Thu Nov 12 10:49:27 UTC 2020
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:26:09 GMT

$ date -u; curl -fs --head http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt | grep Date
Thu Nov 12 10:49:30 UTC 2020
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:48:07 GMT

$ date -u; curl -fs --head http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt | grep Date
Thu Nov 12 10:49:32 UTC 2020
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:26:09 GMT

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