Been meaning to do this for a while, but I’ve finally set up a new public NTP timeserver.
It’s a stratum-3 server, syncing to several decent stratum-2 servers, and answers to the name of time.preshweb.co.uk.
It’s entered the UK pool.ntp.org DNS pool, and I’m seeing quite a few requests already – currently my stats show 4.2 requests per second.
NTP is a damn useful tool to keep system clocks in sync and I’ve been using it for ages on all my boxen; it’s nice to be able to help out by sharing the load a little.
Read more info about NTP or about the pool.ntp.org project. If you have a server somewhere and are willing to help out, the project needs more pool servers to share the load – read more about joining.
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Up to 11 requests/sec now, with over 417,000 requests served so far.
Luckily, ntp requires no hefty processing and uses only small UDP packets, so the CPU and bandwidth requirements are pretty low!
Now served approximately 9.5 million NTP requests, at a long-term average rate of about 20 requests per second!