On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: >> So, when your server is in the DNS zone you get a lot of "newcomer" >> requests. > > Can you quantify "a lot"? One a minute? One a second? > One hundred a second? Evenly spread through the whole > hour or concentrated over a few seconds? > > My personal standard for "a lot" would be several a > second. My server has been serving multiple NTP requests > every second for years, so it would be hard for me to notice > a rate much slower than one a second.
Last year, my typical long-term request rate was around 8 request/ second. It's up to 14.9 req/s now, and when my servers are listed in the pool, I tend to see anywhere from 20 to 30 or even 40 req/s... Of course, there are some IPs which make the problem much worse than it needs to be: Clients with rapid updates (min requests of 100): Rank First Seen Client IP Requests Rate Usage Cumulative 1 01/10/07 18:18:37 216.150.204.1 2660853 0.05 9.75% 9.75% * ! [ ... ] I need to contact their ISP and/or firewall this one... -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
