I moved servers a while back ago and transfered the NTP service over to the new one. Before shutting it down I took one last snapshot:
http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tenmavrillusionscomntpcrj8.png You can see where it was removed and the nice little curve it did, ending at about 300 clients about 5 months afterwards. Even though the new server has a new primary IP I transfered that one over, debated keeping the firewall rule but did eventually remove it since I'm a security nut. Henk P. Penning wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Olaf Zaplinski wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:21:49 +0200 >> From: Olaf Zaplinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [time] server disabled, but ntp traffic? >> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Hi, >> >> I removed my server from www.pool.ntp.org quite some time ago, I think it >> was in July. I run an iptables based traffic counting. And today I still see >> many requests to UDP port 123 on that machine. Right now more than 200 >> packets in one minute. How come? For me it looks as if outdated DNS data was >> available and is being used. > > ... more than a year ago we removed a machine from the pool ; > it had some 1000 active clients ; now, a year later more > than 200 are still active > > http://www.cs.uu.nl/stats/ntp/ntpstats-doei.cs.uu.nl.html > > We keep the box alive, just to see how the number of clients > decreases in time. > >> Olaf > > regards, > > HPP > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- _ > Henk P. Penning, Computer Systems Group R Uithof CGN-A232 _/ \_ > Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University T +31 30 253 4106 / \_/ \ > Padualaan 14, 3584CH Utrecht, the Netherlands F +31 30 251 3791 \_/ \_/ > http://people.cs.uu.nl/henkp/ M [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_/ > _______________________________________________ > timekeepers mailing list > [email protected] > https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers > -- Todd http://www.vrillusions.com/ My PGP Key ID: 0xBC90230C
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