Re: [time] Slashdotting on the way

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Sep 9, 2007, at 5:56, Adrian von Bidder wrote:

On Sunday 09 September 2007 02.58:39 Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

On Sep 8, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

There is a story (available only to slashdot subscribers at the
moment) about the pool reaching 1000.

It's up now,

        http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/08/1840255

... and we already got >25 new subscribers to the timekeepers-announce

servers.  Ask?

mailing list. I hope this is mirrored by a corresponding number of new

Yup - and then some! There are 349 more servers in the pool today than there were a week ago.

(incidentally, I note that the revised growth target from Dec as per the web site seems to be over-optimistic, even the older one from Jan 06 is hard to

meet...)

        http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/@
        http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/north-america


To explain how the numbers are "revised" every year:

The global pool is ahead of the target now, after 311 additions in the last week. Even the lagging north-america zone has caught up. :-) You can see the bump in servers from the last slashdot posting in early 2006 on the north-america graph. I have some (arbitrary-ish) growth targets for each year[1]. On January first it sets the target for each day based on the number of servers the day before.

So, thanks for the /. story, this project needs the exposure!

Thanks Heiko (of Meinberg) who submitted the story they accepted.

Do all Linux/BSD distributions with pool.ntp.org as default server have an invitation to join the project in ntp.conf? I know Debian does, but it's

the only distro I use atm, so I don't know about the others.

 - ask

[1] https://svn.develooper.com/projects/ntppool/trunk/bin/zone_stats

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My impression is that ~nobody notices (or takes action from it). Some of the distributions have newsletters, it might be good to get a mention in those...

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