From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 19:41:00 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171F816A418 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B48713C457 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (relay5.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D13C80365; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id CCFEA29C002; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:40:59 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807123-a673fbb000000b34-4a-46a5044bbb64 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id B800B30400C; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:40:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46A4FFF8.2080302@gmx.de> References: <200707231410.l6NEA6Do034748@lurza.secnetix.de> <9CF2C133-3EAF-4E75-A9DA-5366CD0535BF@mac.com> <46A4FFF8.2080302@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <028042CA-AA5D-4BC2-A086-CAB67C068F44@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:40:59 -0700 To: [LoN]Kamikaze X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:41:00 -0000 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