On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 01:23:45AM -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There are some zones that have way too few servers for way too many clients > so they basically never get to work. Someone joins the zone and in short > order they get kicked out or leave because there’s just too many queries. > When there are no servers in the zone the queries from that country (mostly) > fall back up to the continent zone. > > In the past we had a few zones that were in a similar situation and some of > you had your servers outside that country added to the country zone. > > I’m thinking of making this more automated, so when there are too few servers > in a country, add some (random-ish) servers from the rest of the region or > even the world.
I think that's a great idea. If the country zones don't trash between the two states and have a chance to stabilize, maybe more people will be interested in adding their servers to those zones and the average traffic per server will go down. It sounds like a difficult problem to solve though. If the system doesn't know how much NTP traffic there is in the country and the continent zones, how it will determine the number of foreign servers (and their weight) that need to be added to the zone? I was wondering if it would make sense to try to extend the monitoring system to allow servers to report how much NTP traffic they are actually receiving. For countries where at least one server was reporting the amount of traffic, the total amount of traffic in the zone could be estimated and problems like this would likely be easier to solve. > We could have a special flag that designates a server to be used in this > situation, but for now I’m thinking to just use “specified netspeed is over > X” as the flag indicating that you don’t mind extra queries from outside your > country (or maybe even region). -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
