hi i joined two days ago and was monitoring my traffic to predict what traffic my isp will have to tolerate :)
there are actually 5 things id like to ask: 1. my university has a few timeservers (two with dcf77) but they are only reachable inside the campus net or via vpn. no problems so far, i am just interested in experiences/thoughts with/about vpns (client is called vpnc, terminator is from cisco, it uses a tun interface under linux) cutted ouput of ntpdc -p and ntpq -p st poll reach delay offset disp ======================================================================= 1 64 377 0.01099 -0.000518 0.05774 st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================= 1 u 19 64 377 11.495 0.005 82.740 usually the jitter is a lot lower than that and i have other servers set up as well. 2. my own ip is displayed in ntpdc -p e.g. remote address port local address count m ver code avgint lstint =============================================================================== hostname 40730 127.0.0.1 204 7 2 80 44 0 of course i dont have my own ip added in ntp.conf. since ntp_client_stats uses that kind of output, im an abusive client to myself acording to it O_o ntpd is version 4.2.0a (from pkg 4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1) on a debian sarge box. why does it show my own host? 3. it would be nice if i could exclude my server form the continent zone (europe) to reduce the traffic (if it rises too high). 4. does anything speak against "restrict abusiveip ignore" instead of firewalling? is there a script (in combination with ntp_clients) that does add/remove these lines? 5. why does ntp_clients_stats only show "bandwidth in" instead of totals? if ntpd does not provide that information it could at least estimate it i guess? -- mfG, Stefan Tauner In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
