[ntp:questions] NEW Public Stratum 1 NTP server (Portugal)

David Lord snews at lordynet.org
Thu Oct 13 12:41:55 UTC 2011


Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
> Hi Dave!
> 
> Thanks for all your help!
> 
> 2011/10/13 Dave Hart <hart at ntp.org>:
>> Likely nothing.  I would watch the memory consumption by ntpq for a
>> hint of what is going on, or try it adding one or more -d options to
>> the ntpq command line to see exactly what's happening.  Hopefully with
>> enough patience it will complete, but it is challenged on busy
>> servers.
> 
> It took quite a while but in the end I used
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/ntpq -c "mrulist mincount=10 sort=avgint"
> 
> and it returns much quicker.
> 
> I also added the "kod limited" to restrict command because I was
> seeing some clients do this
> 
> lstint avgint rstr r m v  count rport remote address
> ==============================================================================
>     10     15  590 K 3 3    375  3947 88.210.126.56.rev.optimus.pt
>   1104     15  590 K 3 3    210  3693 pa7-84-91-194-235.netvisao.pt
>    366     15  590 K 3 3    125  4354 pa-217-129-49-198.netvisao.pt
>    254     15  590 K 3 3    293  4622 81.84.253.49
> (a81-84-253-static.cpe.netcabo.pt)
> 
> I thought: what the hell? Pooling every 15 secs? These are real time-nuts! :-)
> 

It can also be a gateway for an internal network with your
server being polled by all the clients on that network.


David

> With KOD this seems to have stopped.
> 
> By the way, I am using 4.2.7p222. Is this stable enough for a pool server?
> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel



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