The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available 160
Do you have a static IP or two? If so, you might be able to spread some Internet infrastructure well-being with very little effort. An anonymous reader writes "The NTP Pool project is turning 10 soon, and needs more servers to continue serving reasonably accurate time to anyone in the world."
Do you need a clock? (Score:4, Insightful)
Are we talking about about stratum 1 servers here?
Re:US Navy Master Clock (Score:5, Insightful)
These three are the US master clock's stratum-1 servers. They most likely will not run out of bandwidth.
Don't do that, though; it's anti-social. The NTP ecosystem is much better off scaling horizontally than vertically.
Re:Too many idiots are pissing in the pool. (Score:4, Insightful)
This is similar to the reason I ended up leaving the pool 7 years ago... The week I left the pool I had two different people call me telling me that one of my machines was hacked because it was attacking their network. "Hmm, what port are you seeing the attacks on?" "123." "You know what 123 is, right? NTP... Those packets your intrusion detection system is complaining about are in response to packets you sent that server."
It was actually the guy that hung up on me while I was telling him that his machines were causing this, that caused me to leave the pool. I'm sorry, but I just can't be providing individual phone support to everyone who uses the NTP pool, that's kind of how I was feeling...
I haven't been in the pool for 7 years, and I'm still getting around 8,000 packets per second on NTP, around a megabit per second. There's one DSL line in Italy that sends an average of 15 packets/sec.
Here's a blog post I wrote in relation to this: http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20050412_123522 [tummy.com]
Sean