Re: [Pool] NTP Pool Servers and DynDNS

2011-02-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Feb 2, 2011, at 14:17, Alby wrote: In short, I'm trying to be cheap about not having to pay for hosting anymore and not having to upgrade to a Business Internet link that would give me a static IP address. NTP works with IP addresses, so no... The dns to IP indirection is what the pool

[Pool] Expanding the anycast dns cloud

2011-03-11 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone, Just for your information: http://news.ntppool.org/2011/03/expanding-the-anycast-dns-serv.html - ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

[Pool] DNS queries per second

2011-03-22 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi, I don't have any ideas for how to avoid this; but basically a crazy amount of the SNTP clients sync just at the top of the hour; or close to it. Below is a second by second query count on one of the busier DNS servers for pool.ntp.org. The normal load is as it is just before the top of

Re: [Pool] Prevent packet storm

2011-03-24 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
it happen, but personally I don't have any time to build it. - ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] time reset

2011-03-25 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
for that). - ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] Pool server ending up in dshield/emerging threats

2011-05-16 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On May 16, 2011, at 16:14, Nicholas Suan wrote: I took a look at the snort rule and it seems that any UDP traffic to the IP address of that pool server is flagged. Is anyone else seeing things like this? It's been a while; but yes (for providing just about any service you can reasonably

[Pool] IPv6 testing, please add your servers to the beta site

2011-06-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
/thread.html https://github.com/abh/ntppool/issues?milestone=2state=open Thanks! :-) - ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] IPv6 testing, please add your servers to the beta site

2011-06-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 3, 2011, at 6:53, Stefan Bethke wrote: It's running a slightly older version of the code; but for getting your servers registered it should be sufficiently up-to-date. I've added 2001:470:1f0b:105e::1e1 (via HE tunnel), but the monitoring server seems to be unable to query time

Re: [Pool] IPv6 testing, please add your servers to the beta site

2011-06-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 3, 2011, at 4:32, Anssi Johansson wrote: What do you think of adding NTP servers whose IPv6 connection is over 6to4 or some other tunneling method? I believe those should not be used in the pool as the connection to them may be unreliable and asymmetric. In any case, I also added

Re: [Pool] IPv6 testing, please add your servers to the beta site

2011-06-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:11, Arne Schwabe wrote: On 03.06.2011 10:55, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: Hi everyone, I think I'll be ready to test the IPv6 and new monitoring code over the weekend or early next week. To not test it on the production system, please add your servers (IPv4

Re: [Pool] bitcard blues (was Re: IPv6 testing, please add your servers to the beta site)

2011-06-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
to use. :-) - ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] IPv6 testing, please add your servers to the beta site

2011-06-04 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 3, 2011, at 7:29, Fabian Wenk wrote: I do not know if the DNS of the pool can do such magic, but if the lookup is coming from an 2002: IPv6 IP address, then it could eventually be a good idea to give back a server with also an 2002: IP address. It's all just a matter of programming

Re: [Pool] IPv6 testing, please add your servers to the beta site

2011-06-04 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 4, 2011, at 5:19, Martin v. Löwis wrote: - When I add a hostname, it only uses the IPv4 Adresse. Patches welcome: https://github.com/abh/ntppool/issues/17 What behavior would you expect, anyway? It needs to chose whether it takes the IPv4 address or the IPv6 address. So under what

Re: [Pool] IPv6 monitoring enabled in beta pool - is it just me?

2011-06-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 6, 2011, at 5:46, John Winters wrote: On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 04:03:42 -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@develooper.com wrote: The system running http://www.beta.grundclock.com/ is now monitoring the IPv6 servers. If you added one, please have a look! I'm currently seeing about every other

Re: [Pool] IPv6 monitoring enabled in beta pool - is it just me?

2011-06-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 6, 2011, at 11:55, Anssi Johansson wrote: ip6tables on Linux doesn't seem to have state tracking and it appears I messed up the firewall rules a bit. I realized it last night actually as I was going to bed, but it was already crazy o'clock. I will get them fixed within an hour

Re: [Pool] IPv6 monitoring enabled in beta pool

2011-06-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Everything but the graphs (and DNS) should now be working. I'll work on DNS next; and last graphs. - ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

[Pool] IPv6 DNS in beta pool

2011-06-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone, If you add 2.beta.grundclock.com to your ntpd.conf and you have IPv6 you will likely get NTP over IPv6. Let me know if you see any problems. If not I will likely deploy all this code on the production system tonight or (more likely) early tomorrow morning. - ask -- Ask Bjørn

Re: [Pool] IPv6 DNS in beta pool

2011-06-07 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 7, 2011, at 1:38, Tim Bray wrote: On 07/06/11 04:43, Anssi Johansson wrote: My only concern at this time is that it's going to take about 18 hours to get my IPv6 NTP servers' score from -9.8 to the acceptable score of 10. There's still about 20.5 hours to go until June 8th 00:00

[Pool] Traffic to the IPv6 servers?

2011-06-10 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone, For those of you who added IPv6 addresses to the production pool: How much IPv6 traffic do you see to your servers now compared to the IPv4 traffic? - ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] Traffic to the IPv6 servers?

2011-06-10 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:20, Arne Schwabe wrote: We have no monitoring but a short tcpdump says (Server bandwidth is set to 1000 Mbit): 390 Packets in 4:30 for IPv6 = 1,4 Packets per second 39783 Packets in 1:46 for IPv4 = 375 Packets per second One thing to be careful with when doing

Re: [Pool] Beta pool monitoring still giving ICMPv6 unreachable port (sometimes)

2011-06-11 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 11, 2011, at 16:58, Matt Nordhoff wrote: port 32158 Gah, thanks. ip6tables and net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range were still disagreeing by a few hundred port numbers. - ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org

Re: [Pool] Beta pool monitoring still giving ICMPv6 unreachable port (sometimes)

2011-06-11 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 11, 2011, at 16:58, Matt Nordhoff wrote: My scores are still 20, though. The monitor tries twice; so it'd only drop if it had bad luck to get one of the ~768 bad local ports twice in a row. Anyway, fixed. Thanks again for the detailed report! - ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http

Re: [Pool] My v6 node has fallen out of the pool.

2011-06-20 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 20, 2011, at 3:58, Shoppa, Tim wrote: I notice that the interval on V4 graphs is 400 seconds (3 polls per interval?) and on the IPV6 graphs is 80 seconds (3 polls per interval?). v4 checks about every 25 minutes; v6 about every 15 currently. Related: The pool system should know how

[Pool] .tr pool participation

2011-06-22 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 22, 2011, at 12:08, Henk P. Penning wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, David Lord wrote: About once a month I was hit by turk-telecom which was about 12-15k requests in about 10-30 minutes but dns rotation must allow for them so if same hits I no longer notice. The new DNS system changed

Re: [Pool] Net speed

2011-07-09 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jul 8, 2011, at 20:52, Kiss Gábor wrote: Dear Ask, I've just added two servers to the pool with 10 Gbps connection. Maybe it is time to append 1 Mbit entry to connection speed menus on page http://www.pool.ntp.org/manage/servers :-) The net speed is mostly just a relative measure

Re: [Pool] Redefinition of UTC (Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation)

2011-07-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jul 13, 2011, at 12:38, Hal Murray wrote: Leap seconds works terribly in practice -- at least according to the pool system monitoring during the last one. (And that's not even counting the obvious problem of having two seconds with the same timestamp!).

[Pool] Per IP protocol server counts

2011-07-19 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
The zone pages now include separate columns for the number of IPv4 and IPv6 servers: http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone The IPv6 servers are virtually all in Europe (~80%) and North America (~20%). - ask -- http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/

[Pool] well connected virtual machine for nagios sought

2011-08-07 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone, To distribute the pool related systems a bit, I am hoping someone has a virtual machine with both IPv4 and IPv6 available that we could use for monitoring the pool systems (monitor the monitor and the DNS servers in particular). What I'm looking for: Stable server, ~1GB memory,

Re: [Pool] From which IP addresses is going monitoring activity?

2011-09-14 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
If you ban the monitoring IPs your banning logic is being way too aggressive. -- http://localrobot.com/ On Sep 13, 2011, at 13:28, Huckster i...@hws.ru wrote: Sorry for my English. I want to ban flooders, but i don't want to ban the monitor servers

Re: [Pool] Monitoring concerns

2011-10-18 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:38, Chuck Swiger wrote: 2. Where, geographically are the monitoring servers located? I believe the monitoring is located in California, CA. Ask would be able to provide more specific details. Yup, Los Angeles, CA. I'll probably add a second IPv6 monitoring node

[Pool] Server counts

2012-01-31 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
servers which I hope is a healthy rate vis-à-vis whatever growth we have in usage[1]. http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone Ask [1] On my todo is making better tools to estimate our overall query rate etc. -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com

[Pool] Leap second announced on the GPS system

2012-02-08 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
As you maybe read a month ago we'll have another leap second at the end of June. About 6 hours ago the GPS satellites started announcing it, too. And if you have been following the proposal to abolish leap seconds[1], on January 19th the ITU postponed that decision until 2015[2]. Ask [1]

Re: [Pool] graph of the pool

2012-02-12 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 11, 2010, at 11:03, Folkert van Heusden wrote: A week ago I graphed the NTP pool. http://vanheusden.com/misc/blog/ntp/output.png This graph is of all 6500 hosts in the pool, polled from the Netherlands. Every 65 seconds I polled all hosts (well, 65.001 seconds to be precise). The y

[Pool] Multiple monitors

2012-02-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
In the next week or two I am planning to enable a second monitoring system on the beta pool - http://www.beta.grundclock.com/ If you want to help make sure it works okay, please sign up your servers there if you haven't already: http://manage-beta.grundclock.com/ (you might also want to

Re: [Pool] More IPv6 usage

2012-05-09 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On May 9, 2012, at 17:44, Chuck Swiger wrote: Please don't add machines which are behind a VPN tunnel to the NTP pool. They will experience additional noisy delays as a consequence of the VPN crypto which make them undesirable as timeservers. Two reasons I don't think this is necessarily a

Re: [Pool] More IPv6 usage

2012-05-10 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
. Australia 60/4. Canada 59/5. Even Japan are just at 21/3. Most of the countries with less than a dozen IPv4 servers have zero, one or two IPv6 servers. As we get better coverage around the world, we can turn it on. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com

Re: [Pool] More IPv6 usage

2012-05-10 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On May 10, 2012, at 9:01, Rob Janssen wrote: I expect that the lack of servers in certain countries will be compensated by the lack of users in same countries. I'm not concerned if the system has enough capacity to serve the clients, but rather if there are enough servers to give a little

[Pool] Support staff volunteers

2012-05-27 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone, I get a slow but steady stream of questions and requests related to the NTP Pool; most of which I'm really no better at answering than most of you who are subscribed to this list. Instead then I can spend that time making the system better. This mail is to solicit 2 or 3

Re: [Pool] Support staff volunteers

2012-05-28 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On May 27, 2012, at 22:44, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@develooper.com wrote: Reply to me off-list unless you have general questions. I'll update here when I have a few volunteers. Thank you for reading this far! Hi everyone, I got enough volunteers now I think! I will write to everyone who

[Pool] Web sites changed IPs

2012-06-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone, A little while ago our friends at Phyber - http://www.phyber.com/ - racked a few more servers for us and installed RHEL 6 on them.Over the last months I've been moving services to the newer boxes. Today I moved the web frontend (previously just Varnish on one box) to two of

Re: [Pool] ICOM Communication

2012-06-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 2, 2012, at 22:21, Luke Militello l...@digitalenigma.net wrote: Does anyone know if you can control multiple CI-V ICOM radios (via multiple serial interfaces) from a single server for each of WWV/H and CHU? This is a question better for the NTP newsgroup. Ask

Re: [Pool] welcome/ntp questions

2012-06-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 11, 2012, at 19:29, Timothy Oefelein ntpp...@arpage.org wrote: 1) What kind of accuracy/precision loss occurs when you run ntpd on an asymmetrical connection (e.g., DSL). I've read that ntpd makes the assumption that your connection is symmetrical when calcuating the effects of

[Pool] Faster NTP Pool website

2012-06-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
are in Europe or in the eastern US. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

[Pool] Servers for the NTP Pool DNS software wanted

2012-06-14 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
the current servers can't keep up for a few seconds several times a day, any server fitting the requirements is welcome. :-) Ask [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org

Re: [Pool] Faster NTP Pool website

2012-06-16 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
://news.ntppool.org/2012/06/faster-site-and-more-graph-upd.html http://graphs.ntppool.net/graph/207.171.7.152/offset.png Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] How scatter plot graphs are better for offset graphs

2012-06-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 17, 2012, at 0:12, Kiss Gábor wrote: Would you mind to check page http://www.pool.ntp.org/user/kissg ? Thank you for having marked your profile public. I try not to put peoples IPs and such on the list when we discuss things unless they've done so, and obviously having specific cases

Re: [Pool] How scatter plot graphs are better for offset graphs

2012-06-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 17, 2012, at 12:44, Dave Hart wrote: http://www.pool.ntp.org/user/davehart provides a contrarian view. The timescales are different but the two addresses represent the same host, located at ISC. I think those graphs are mostly a victim of a few bad measurements on the IPv4 server

[Pool] Need more servers

2012-06-21 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone, We could use some more servers: http://news.ntppool.org/2012/06/more-servers-please.html Ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] Need more servers

2012-06-22 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 22, 2012, at 16:35, Mark Karpeles wrote: [...] People in Japan are more likely to use ntp.nict.jp than pool.ntp.org (main reason being that they don't know about the ntp pool, while NICT is a government entity). [...] For information my server on the pool based in Japan currently

Re: [Pool] packet loss in IPv6 monitoring?

2012-06-23 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@ntppool.org wrote: On Jun 19, 2012, at 3:17, Christian 'wiwi' Wittenhorst wrote: We might have a general problem with IPv6... Indeed, annoyingly! The NTP Pool servers have had 10-20% packetloss on IPv6 (works for a while, stops

Re: [Pool] NTP configuration

2012-06-25 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 24, 2012, at 2:18, Thomas Rieschl wrote: Maybe someone could put that on the pool website? Something like a preferred configuration info page for servers on the pool. I think it makes most sense to have that information on the support.ntp.org wiki and then link to it from the NTP

Re: [Pool] NTP configuration

2012-06-25 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 25, 2012, at 9:33, Dave Hart wrote: iburst affects initial startup, plus re-acquisition if a server was unreachable. For any default configuration iburst is a bad idea. If you care enough about the time you can add it, but distributors shouldn't include it by default. Is it smart

Re: [Pool] NTP configuration

2012-06-25 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 25, 2012, at 5:55, Fabian Wenk wrote: I also have a script which will report the unix time on the same systems during the leap second. I am curios how this will look like, but probably the system time is only corrected over a longer time period, without any additional second (as

Re: [Pool] Adding v6 Server

2012-06-27 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:07, AlbyVA wrote: Time for the power's that be to double check the website code on new v6 submissions. It's on my list, I will get to it in a few hours. I think it's one of the new servers that was missing something. I just got the whole site running only on the

Re: [Pool] problems with my server

2012-06-27 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 27, 2012, at 11:44, paul w mir...@websters-computers.com wrote: I'm trying to track down what is wrong with my server, it can't get a score above around 9 before getting knocked down again. This is on the ipv4 address (38.109.218.175), but the ipv6 address is fine and gets a score of

Re: [Pool] yu.pool.ntp.org

2012-06-28 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 28, 2012, at 15:45, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: If it is being queried, I would suggest deprecation (and adding the servers it contains to appropriate zones). It's being queried 1000-1500 times an hour (estimated by looking at one DNS server). This is out of 8-15 million DNS

Re: [Pool] Leap second mistakes

2012-07-01 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 30, 2012, at 17:58, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: Looks like about 250 servers missed the leap second. This query counts how many servers had an offset 100ms around one second off. It was basically none yesterday, and 253 in the first hour after the leap. Compared to the last leap

Re: [Pool] Taking down my NTP server in Turkey

2012-07-26 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
for the tr zone then I think the solution will be to just turn off access to the NTP Pool from Turkey rather than having the requests fallback to the general europe zone. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool

[Pool] Free Meinberg PCI express clocks

2012-07-26 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] Traffic graphs (was: Taking down my NTP server in Turkey)

2012-07-27 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Friday, July 27, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Vasil Kolev wrote: В 01:41 +0300 на 28.07.2012 (сб), Anssi Johansson написа: .. Based on the same idea, A repository + wiki on github for these tools would be useful. Ask -- http://askask.com/ | http://www.ntppool.org/

Re: [Pool] Taking down my NTP server in Turkey

2012-07-29 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Charlie Came char...@charliecame.com wrote: You can add my server to the .tr zone if you want: Hostname: ntp.charliecame.com IP: 87.98.254.133 Thanks Charlie, I've added yours and the others that have volunteered over the last few days. Hopefully it should

Re: [Pool] Taking down my NTP server in Turkey

2012-07-30 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Monday, July 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Anssi Johansson wrote: However, the average is the important word here as there will be traffic bursts. The traffic bursts will only become less frequent when more servers are added, but it won't reduce the peak values. This is because most traffic from

Re: [Pool] Question about precision I can expect

2012-08-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Don't overestimate how accurate the monitoring system is. There are lots of factors that can shift the accuracy by a few tens of ms from time to time. If your server is in agreement with various well run servers (nearby and farther away) then trust that. The monitoring system isn't intended

Re: [Pool] Question about precision I can expect

2012-08-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Kiss Gábor wrote: What if the monitoring system Asks (sorry :) the server's own estimation about its offset? (I mean value 1.780 below) (If possible.) It depends less on _your_ network environment and probably more realistic than a single poll from you.

[Pool] Fwd: WARNING: someone's faking a leap second tonight

2012-08-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone,I've been planning to add something to to the system so it checks for correct leap second announcements, it looks like I shouldn't wait until the next leap second before doing it.AskBegin forwarded message:From: Martin BurnickiSubject: Fwd: WARNING: someone's faking a leap second

Re: [Pool] Taking down my NTP server in Turkey

2012-08-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
. If they're going to abuse someone, we're likely in the best position to take it. If we can't at some point we'll figure out to block them, but as long as people are willing to put up their servers to take the load (abuse?), then let's do that. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com

Re: [Pool] Fwd: WARNING: someone's faking a leap second tonight

2012-08-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
/issues/55 https://github.com/abh/ntppool/issues/54 -- http://askask.com/ | http://www.ntppool.org/ On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@ntppool.org (mailto:a...@ntppool.org) wrote: Hi everyone, Ask Begin forwarded message: From: Martin

Re: [Pool] Forward of moderated message

2012-08-07 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Aug 7, 2012, at 5:17, webmaster-boun...@lists.ntp.org wrote: Hi Sean, I don't think that IP address has ever been part of the NTP Pool, it is however listed on http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NtpOneTummyCom (which is unrelated to the NTP Pool). Ask

Re: [Pool] Constant offset of about -10ms

2012-08-19 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
to start tracking network paths (though obviously just in one direction): https://github.com/abh/ntppool/issues/56 Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] Geo IP database update

2012-08-21 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Thanks, I updated the puppet configuration so the new servers get the GeoIP database updated regularly (similar to the DNS servers). I also updated the zones for your servers. Ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org

Re: [Pool] IPv6 fail

2012-08-29 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
A traceroute is always helpful to figure out what is going on when there are network problems. Having more monitoring stations will make the system pickier, not more tolerant. Ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org

Re: [Pool] huffpuff/asymmetrical connections

2012-09-12 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
.redhat.com is across the country. The second to last is a random NTP Pool server. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] dns resolve issues for pool.ntp.org

2012-09-20 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Sep 20, 2012, at 2:03, maoz zadok mao...@gmail.com wrote: maoz@maoz-laptop:~$ for X in a b c d e f g h; do echo asking $X.ntpns.org, ANSWER SECTION:; dig +short pool.ntp.org @$X.ntpns.org; done asking a.ntpns.org, ANSWER SECTION: asking b.ntpns.org, ANSWER SECTION: That's pretty

Re: [Pool] verifying ntp instalation for end users

2012-10-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone, Let us pack up the discussion of the relative merits of programming languages and execution environments, it is getting pretty far off-topic. Ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] NTP stratum 1/2 server in Egypt

2012-10-10 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi, First: Thank you for your efforts adding servers in countries with few servers, it's really great. In addition to what Oliver (and others) said I'd add that if it's hard for you to find a stratum 1 server in Egypt, it'll be really really hard for a casual user. There's not even an 'eg'

Re: [Pool] new stratum-1 option?

2012-10-24 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Unless someone is trying to run an NTP server for the pool in a tunnel with one of those devices/extenders, we're getting well off-topic for the NTP Pool. :-) Ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

[Pool] Anycast and NTP

2012-10-25 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Somebody wrote to me in the last week about helping the NTP Pool with their new anycast setup, but I can't find the email anywhere. If it was you or you know who it was, please write again! Ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org

Re: [Pool] Website errors for days ?

2013-01-16 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jan 16, 2013, at 16:15, Thibault VINCENT ti...@reloaded.fr wrote: Very surprised nobody wrote about that to the list or on the news page, I waited for two days and tested from many locations, but it really seems like the pool website is broken. Hi, Indeed, it's been not doing so well

Re: [Pool] Score monitoring with Nagios

2013-02-04 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Feb 4, 2013, at 6:29, Fabian Wenk fab...@wenks.ch wrote: I have set the normal_check_interval to 60, so that it does only check once every hour. I hope this is fine for the Pool web server. More often is fine, too. Those requests are actually cached for 10 or 20 minutes, so I'd suggest

Re: [Pool] incorrect graphs?

2013-02-23 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
there. http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/209.141.47.34 The graphs are working again (some might need a few hours to expire from the caches). The CSV log has all the measurement data, too: http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/209.141.47.34/log?limit=1000 Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com

Re: [Pool] Is there a way to tell if an IP Address is still in the pool?

2013-02-24 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
. :-) (Because it gives different answers to each query). Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] Is there a way to tell if an IP Address is still in the pool?

2013-02-25 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
servers leaving the pool work better is crucial to the long term stability and functionality of the system. If you are the kind of user who can't stomach the small extra jitter when a server comes and goes you should use your own stratum 1 equipment, not the pool. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen

Re: [Pool] oops - short web outage

2013-03-04 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Interesting! Does anyone not in the tr zone have graphs, too? I rolled out edns-subnet support on Wednesday and Thursday. I believe Google DNS white listed out servers Thursday. We have some sort of incompatibility with OpenDNS that made them do almost 50k/qps until they turned it off again; I

Re: [Pool] Getting close to 1000 IPv6 servers

2013-03-12 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
.pool.ntp.org, 2.fedora.pool.ntp.org, etc) even has the option of getting an record, so that probably makes it down to 1/3 to 1/6th of the regular traffic, too. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool

Re: [Pool] Getting close to 1000 IPv6 servers

2013-03-12 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 12, 2013, at 16:48, Darryl Ross dar...@afoyi.com wrote: Why would service be worse? Doesn't ntpd ask for A and records? If so, it'd still get the same number of IPv4 records, plus the IPv6? Most clients will only use the records if available.

Re: [Pool] Getting close to 1000 IPv6 servers

2013-03-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:48 PM, Markku Miettinen su...@surfa.name wrote: This is absolutely the way that a client SHOULD NOT work and this is what many OS and application developers with IETF have been trying to shoot down for years. It is not how IPv6 works as stated one of latter e-mails.

Re: [Pool] oops - short web outage

2013-03-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 17, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Henk P. Penning penn...@uu.nl wrote: Looking at zone tr.pool.ntp.org for the last 2.5 days : http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~penni101/tr/ -- 9 (out of 24 active) servers were spotted in the zone -- 1 server is always in the zone -- 3 servers are

Re: [Pool] oops - short web outage

2013-03-18 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 18, 2013, at 3:02, Henk P. Penning penn...@uu.nl wrote: Ok ; thanks. Reviving the service immediately changed the 'ip in the pool' pattern: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~penni101/tr/ It now looks again like something I would expect. One thing to keep in mind is that tr,

Re: [Pool] Getting close to 1000 IPv6 servers

2013-03-21 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
it on some of my boxes at home; though they have IPv4, too. It's working fine as far as I can tell except for the quirk that you get twice as many active servers when you are dual stacked compared to if you are not. I haven't monitored the failure/replacement stuff. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen

Re: [Pool] Encouraging IPv6 use

2013-03-21 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
that at some point. On my todo/roadmap I have a feature so each zone can be configured differently, optimized for ntp or sntp, number of servers returned etc. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http

Re: [Pool] Getting close to 1000 IPv6 servers

2013-03-24 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 21, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: Can anybody test the pool command in a IPv6 only environment? For what it's worth: I'm using it on some of my boxes at home; though they have IPv4, too. It's working fine as far as I can tell except for the quirk that

Re: [Pool] Unable to add IPv6 NTP host

2013-04-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 11:48, tech-li...@packet-labs.net wrote: I'm attempt to add an IPv6 enabled NTP host on a HE tunnel, but the monitoring system is rejecting it when I submit it with the following error: Invalid stratum response from 2001:XXX:X:XXX::X Hi Jay, Did you

[Pool] Brief www outage

2013-05-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
The management and monitoring system will have a brief outage, http://news.ntppool.org/2013/05/brief-outage-for-ntp-pool-webs.html Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/ ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org

Re: [Pool] Brief www outage

2013-05-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Friday, May 17, 2013 at 13:03, Svavar Kjarrval wrote: It's lacking a 'when' unless it's happening right now. Indeed. Soon is the plan. :-) It was going to be shortly after I wrote, but the people doing the work got delayed. Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com

Re: [Pool] Brief www outage

2013-05-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
It is in progress now. Ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

Re: [Pool] Brief www outage

2013-05-18 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Paul Staroch wrote: Is there some IPv6 routing problem since the migration? http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/2a01:4f8:162:51e2::2 vs http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/2a02:180:1:1::5b8f:533e I'm looking into it. I suspect it's unrelated from moving rack.

Re: [Pool] Graphs

2013-06-20 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 19, 2013, at 5:15, Roel Wagenaar r...@wagenaar.nu wrote: If I put http://graphs.ntppool.net/graph/46.231.82.7/offset.png in my browser it nicely shows the most recent graph of one of my servers,if I use the same address in a lynx -source address constuct in a script downloading it to

Re: [Pool] Problem with pool server IPv6

2013-06-26 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
0.00, delay 0.0 26 Jun 22:06:34 ntpdate[13298]: no server suitable for synchronization found Ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen - http://askask.com/ On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 1:32, lst_ho...@79365-rhs.de wrote: Hello, do we have some IPv6 problem with the pool monitors? I got

Re: [Pool] Problem with pool server IPv6

2013-06-27 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
I need some help debugging it. The monitoring system should send you a packet every ~15 minutes from 2607:f238:2::/48 For those of you who have problems, can you run tcpdump -nn 'net 2607:f238:2::/48' and let me know what you see? Since traceroutes seem to work fine both way (?!) it must be

Re: [Pool] Problem with pool server IPv6

2013-06-28 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Thanks Andreas. I posted this on the news site: http://news.ntppool.org/2013/06/ipv6-monitoring-problems-for-g.html Ask ___ pool mailing list pool@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool

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