I too have asked Ask to include one of my machines in the tr zone. -- Wessel
Op 27 jul. 2012 om 14:10 heeft Fabian Wenk <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > Hello Ask > > On 27.07.2012 06:48, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: >> There are a few servers in the tr zone now, though most are >> configured to not get too much of the traffic. >> >> If anyone else wants to serve some extra requests, let me know >> and I can add your server to the tr zone. :-) > > When I look at the stats from Anssi, then his servers gets around 600 times > more requests then any of my server here in Switzerland. After your last > request about more servers in June, I cheated and set all my 6 (3x IPv4 + > IPv6) servers from 1.5 Mbit/s to 10 Mbit/s (even if 5 of them share this > bandwidth together). But traffic did only double, see [1] (only > ntp[1-3].home4u.ch are my own systems). > > [1] http://www.home4u.ch/ntp/year.html > > If I look at the number of servers in tr zone compared to ch zone, there is a > huge discrepancy compared to population of each country. See my posting [2] > with some stats regarding this. > > [2] http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/pool/2012-July/005997.html > > I would be willing to also help serve the tr zone, but only if some more > servers from other zones with a lot of servers (probably mostly Europe) also > are added. My servers are not only running for ntp, so I do not know what > kind of side effect this would have, if they have to serve up to 600 times > more ntp requests. > >> If the situation with the excessive requests from the Turk >> Telekom CPE equipment stays the same and at some point there >> are not any servers for the tr zone then I think the >> "solution" will be to just turn off access to the NTP Pool >> from Turkey rather than having the requests fallback to the >> general europe zone. > > Strange, according to [3] and [4], it seems that Turkey is in the asia and > not the europe ntp pool zone. But I guess Turkey is more oriented to Europe > then Asia, but geographically it is probably more in Asia then Europe. I do > not know, what would be better, to add the tr zone to the europe zone or not, > then the europe zone [5] as around 10 times more server then the asia zone. I > do see the problem, if you move tr to europe, then asia has even less servers. > > [3] http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/tr > [4] http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/asia > [5] http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/europe > > > bye > Fabian > _______________________________________________ > pool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
