Hi, it's been 2.5 years since I set up a NTP server in Turkey to reduce
the effects of Turk Telekom's routers querying the pool NTP servers. I
think this method has worked quite nicely, with the server serving some
1400-1500 packets/sec on average[1] for the last year. I was hoping that
at some point Turk Telekom would reconfigure their routers to not query
the pool, but alas, that has not happened.
When I set up that server, I was working for a company that used a
vendor zone for pool.ntp.org, but I actually paid for the hosting cost
of that server myself. It was easier that way, less bureaucracy.. I quit
that job in mid-2010, but I continued paying the hosting costs for that
server in 2011 and 2012. I'm a "poor student" nowadays, and I simply
can't afford to pay the annual cost of $914.74 USD any more. So, quite
frankly, it's all about the money.
I've paid for the server until the end of this year, but I'm not
planning to renew the hosting for 2013. If Turk Telekom does nothing to
their routers in the meantime, expect to see some NTP traffic spikes
again in 2013.
[1] http://kameli.miuku.net/stats/ntppackets.html
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