On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:11:34 +0100 Johan Lindquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, my question would be, how long should you expect clients remain > with the IP assigned from the pool? Until they are restarted? If no > response is sent, do they still keep trying? The website says: "Finally, I must emphasize that joining the pool is a long term commitment. We are happy to take you out of the pool again if your circumstances change, but because of how the ntp clients operate it will take weeks or even months before the traffic goes away." When you consider that many of the pool clients are server machines, and that ntpd only resolves the address once upon startup, then you'll continue to see traffic until the machine or ntpd is restarted. A sanely configured ntpd will poll a dead server every 1024 seconds, which is approximately ~56 bytes of UDP traffic every 17 minutes. Unfortunately there are some badly configured/implemented clients around, which increase the polling interval when a server is found to be unreachable. The effect of these bad clients should be negligible, however. --atj _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
