On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:10:33AM -0700, Nelson Minar wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, in particular ones that are not at midnight local time (seen 
> > from the user).  :-)  Well, even those would be interesting I guess -- 
> > what I am going for is to find out if Big Corps are using the pool (in 
> > particular if they are in a braiddead ever midnight way) and - in 
> > particular - if DNS caching at big ISPs is significantly affecting the 
> > distribution of requests to the pool.
> 
> Got it. I'm fairly certain the spikes on-the-hour are not a result of 
> DNS caching. I'm guessing some NTP client or cron job just refreshes the 
> client then. If we really needed to know, the way to figure this out 
> would be to probe the OS of the hosts making the requests on the hour, 
> and/or try to classify the NTP implementation based on packet captures. 
> More work than I want to do for what's just an amusing puzzle.

Wouldn't http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f.shtml make that simple? No
outbound probing involved.

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