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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:40:59 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        [LoN]Kamikaze <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing
Message-ID:  <028042CA-AA5D-4BC2-A086-CAB67C068F44@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <46A4FFF8.2080302@gmx.de>
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On Jul 23, 2007, at 12:22 PM, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>> I wish to second what Oliver has said, only more strongly: using
>> "minpoll 4" is considered abusive and a misuse of the NTP pool.  From
>> http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html
>
> That was only for testing.

Please use your own timeservers for testing, not the NTP pool.

I'm not trying to be mean, but I've got three NTP servers in the  
pool, and just a handful of misconfigured clients which poll more  
often than once a minute consume more bandwidth than 60 to 1000  
normal clients do....

-- 
-Chuck




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