Hi,

Am 21.07.2015 um 23:54 schrieb Arnold Schekkerman:

> They have more control over NTP traffic (and possible abuse or other issues) 
> if
> they support the pool with dedicated resources. Another reason might be that 
> NTP
> traffic to an IP can stay for a long time after you stop being a customer. 
> The next
> customer obtaining your former IP may not like the residue NTP traffic. In 
> this,
> NTP is different from other traffic.

Oh yes...
I used to provide a Stratum 1 time server (DCF77) to the pool, configured with 
1M bandwidth.
Since the hardware is not working anymore, I removed this server from the pool. 
In September. Last year.
Today I can see frequent requests coming from about 15-20 different source 
IPs...
Even the host name does not resolve anymore, so I assume I'm seeing traffic 
from very long running systems (or those
with static configured IPs instead of host names).
That's not a real problem and it does not consume any data volume. But what if 
I configured the server to have 100M bandwidth?


To virtualization:
My pool servers are virtualized with KVM on my very own KVM hosts. Monitoring 
says, the server is pretty accurate and provides stable time
for the last 2-3 years. But I wouldn't setup a pool server on a leased virtual 
server from another provider. I see, that some hosters are doing
weird things on limiting/blocking UDP traffic directed or originating from 
virtual servers...

Regards,
 Max

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