> On of the contacts for the specific IP addresses listed above
> (that is a contact for the Roulette sensors) wrote:
>
> "Shutting down all nodes in the meantime."
> but no explanation was provided concerning
> why all the NTP requests were being made...

The Roulette Testbed, from what I can see in Google
caches, is built out of Soekris hardware, and Soekris
hardware is a very common choice for high-stability
PPS-locked stratum 1 NTP servers or other
places where network timing
experiments are made. The networking experiments
being done clearly might need some high-resolution
timing sources.

Of course, why would they use random pool servers
to set time on such a high-sensitivity testbed? And why
would they be configured so poorly? Probably just
a config mistake.

Tim.

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