If it's ok that a server is in England, then I can donate it to the zone for now.
- Svavar Kjarrval On 02/08/12 15:32, Henk P. Penning wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Mouse wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:24:29 +0200 >> From: Mouse <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Pool] Taking down my NTP server in Turkey >> Sender: [email protected] > >> They're using the tr country-code zone? Then I have to wonder why we >> still have a tr zone. As *ahem* unfortunate as it would be for other >> Turks, it appears Turk Telekom is uninterested in participating in the >> cooperative, mutually helpful network the pool is designed for. >> Putting up an announcement on (sigh) the pool webpages that we have no >> tr zone (and perhaps giving some subtitute, tr2 maybe?) and explaining >> why would, it seems to me, break the abusive access while being about >> as minimally disruptive as possible to others. >> >> But this seems so obvious I can hardly imagine nobody's thought of it >> before. So presumably there's some reason why it hasn't been done. > > The reason (I think) is that Turk Telekom's abuse of the pool, > isn't a good enough reason /not/ to provide good ntp service > to the people in ".tr". > > I support the current work-around : asking volunteers for "tr.pool", > to spread the load. To put presure on the Turk Telekom users, or > tamper with their service is (imho) 'evil', as in "don't be evil". > > What can be done ? > > -- Is there some page that describes the problem ? > -- If not, can someone write it up ? [I'm not volunteering ;-] > > and then ... > > ... maybe Ask can put it on www.pool.ntp.org > [ I don't see a ref to Turk Telekom there yet ] > ... everybody can contact Turk Telekom about the abuse > ... we can get Turk Telekom to acknowledge there is a problem > ... we can work /with/ Turk Telekom to find a better work-around, > or maybe even get them to fix the problem. > > In the meantime, join the .tr pool, and enjoy the spikes! > Worry only about bandwidth ; your server can take it ; > ours (2001) didn't even blink, serving 25,000 packs/sec on > the last "leap-second" day. See our 'Traffic' stats here: > > http://www.cs.uu.nl/stats/ntp/ntpstats-metronoom.dmz.cs.uu.nl.html > > ... observer the decrease in traffic due to added tr.pool servers. > > Regards, > > Henk Penning > > --------------------------------------------------------- _ > Henk P. Penning, ICT-beta R Uithof WISK-412 _/ \_ > Faculty of Science, Utrecht University T +31 30 253 4106 / \_/ \ > Budapestlaan 6, 3584CD Utrecht, NL F +31 30 253 4553 \_/ \_/ > http://people.cs.uu.nl/henkp/ M [email protected] \_/ > _______________________________________________ > pool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
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