On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Daniel 'hackbyte' Mitzlaff < [email protected]> wrote:
> What the? > > > 2017-06-19 23:28 GMT+02:00 Dan Geist <[email protected]>: > > > > > I support an ecosystem of (a really big number of) clients that are all > > intentionally rebooted every night at the same local time. There is > indeed > > a huge flood of time checks immediately following them since there is no > > battery-backed "CMOS-type" clock function on the device (thank you > > bean-counters). This is actually kind of nice since it's a really > accurate > > approximation of worst case scenario. > > > > Back in the days, when i learned my internet basics, i learned to mitigate > any unnecessary internet traffic by having _*local proxy servers*_ for each > and every possible service. > > Are you really telling me, you guys are "just going the easy way", leaving > all these devices on their defaults instead of setting up your damn very > own ntpd acting at least as a stratum 3 proxy for your fscking LAN??? > I don't see anywhere in that email where it's suggested that they are querying public servers. If anything, calling the behavior "kind of nice" as a load test would lead me to believe that the traffic is indeed against their own servers. > REALLY? > > Well, i suppose, people who just put a full quote in their answer seem to > don't know it better? > This bit comes across as a personal attack. _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
