> - The job of the NTP Pool is to be the first choice when needing > basic NTP service. It's the whole reason we're doing this.
True. I sometimes lose sight of that. However - and here I should emphasize that this is a strictly personal viewpoint - I am interested in helping others on the net who share the same basic point of view, that the net is a cooperative endeavour, not something to be freeloaded off of to the extent it's willing to tolerate it. While one of the things that goes with helping anonymous strangers is a certain amount of freeloader support, when the freeloaders become too large a load, the model is unsustainable, and I personally am far less willing to go out of my way to help those whom I perceive as freeloaders. Indeed, I have automatic mechanisms in place that block access to anyone who exhibits too high a packet rate to my port 123.... It appears Turk Telekom hasn't reached that point for us yet. I hope they never do, and as long as they don't I agree we should continue to support them. But that we're having this discussion at all indicates that they are substantially closer to it than most pool clients are. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
