-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28 Dec 2009 at 17:55, Rob Janssen wrote:
> Thomas Rieschl wrote: > > out of curiosity, why do you do that? > > are all ntp clients from Turkey evil? > > > > I've to admit I don't know who exactly uses my ntp server but I > > don't think that there are "too much" from Turkey... > I have always wondered about that as well... > First, we are advertising an NTP service available for all to use, and > when it becomes successfull some start blocking countries that really > use it. > > Maybe the use by Turk Telecom ADSL routers does not completely follow > all advices of good usership, but they aren't that bad either. The > devices don't poll fast, there just are many of them. > > When there would be a big increase in use of the pool by users > following all the rules, the "problems" would be the same, only the > requests would come from all over the world. > I was worried when I had 15000 requests over a 30 minute period soon after I joined the pool since that rate would take me over my isps usage allowance. However it was soon obvious that level of connections wasn't normal and over three months my two servers, each with 512kbit setting, have had total of 570000 requests which I'm happy with. Highest rate either server has seen is about 5000 requests over 5 minutes. David > Rob > _______________________________________________ > timekeepers mailing list > [email protected] > https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers - -- David Lord <[email protected]> <ftp://ftp.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/lg_david.pkr> <http://www.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/lg_david.pkr> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 -- QDPGP 2.65 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBSznhr62RmIodDo7KEQLSfQCeO7Hqno4ZT7dHKUwVJShJOlNR+UYAoM1W b6QwLZAS+IkomKkcilpXBhE+ =q2fF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
