> Also, how does the bandwidth affect including in the zones? I had a look > through the source but couldn't work out where the weighting occurs. The > device has a 100Mbps interface, and our internet link is 1Gbps via > AARNet, so I've set the Net speed to 100Mbps.
My understanding is the bandwidth figure in "net speed" doesn't necessarily correlate with any specific bandwidth, but is more a weighting of how often your server will be given out in the DNS responses for the pool zone you are in. If there were 100 servers in the pool and everyone had "net speed" set to 100Mbps (or even 1Mbps), then roughly speaking you'd expect your server to get around 1% of the traffic for that zone. My take on it is that without known the total amount of "net speed" for a given pool, all you can assume is a bigger number will attract more requests to varying degrees. It's always best to start off with a smaller bandwidth figure like 1Mbps or 10Mbps, monitor traffic and request volumes and increment the "net speed" slowly over a period of time. Because clients don't always do DNS lookups you get sticky clients and over time traffic will skew somewhat. Cheers, Joseph _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
