# 3.ie.pool.ntp.org downtime? **URL:** \ **Category:** Server operators\ **Created:** [July 7, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/3-ie-pool-ntp-org-downtime/2480 "2022-07-07T12:15:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mattycriscuolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@mattycriscuolo](https://community.ntppool.org/u/mattycriscuolo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/3-ie-pool-ntp-org-downtime/2480/1 "2022-07-07T12:15:06Z")
We had an issue with one of our DC’s not connecting to **[3.ie.pool.ntp.org](http://3.ie.pool.ntp.org)** server for a period of time on Sunday, 3rd July. Is there a way to check downtime of servers, or even an archive of historic events for pool servers? Many thanks ---
**Author:** ![penguinpee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.ntppool.org/penguinpee/32/919_2.png) [@penguinpee](https://community.ntppool.org/u/penguinpee)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/3-ie-pool-ntp-org-downtime/2480/2 "2022-07-07T14:17:49Z")
There was an [outage](https://community.ntppool.org/t/503-service-unavailable/2475). Not sure if it’s related. The outage didn’t show up on the [status page](https://status.ntppool.org/), but pool servers weren’t polled. [Graphs](https://www.ntppool.org/a/penguinpee) showed a gap for a few hours. @ask probably knows more about it. ---
**Author:** ![stevesommars](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.ntppool.org/stevesommars/32/2075_2.png) [@stevesommars](https://community.ntppool.org/u/stevesommars)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/3-ie-pool-ntp-org-downtime/2480/3 "2022-07-07T16:29:12Z")
monsjc1 was not polling pool servers 2022-07-03 08:23 - 2022-07-03 19:33 I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![Bas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.ntppool.org/bas/32/465_2.png) [@Bas](https://community.ntppool.org/u/Bas)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/3-ie-pool-ntp-org-downtime/2480/4 "2022-07-12T15:56:02Z")
> [@mattycriscuolo](#): > > We had an issue with one of our DC’s not connecting to **[3.ie.pool.ntp.org](http://3.ie.pool.ntp.org)** server for a period of time on Sunday, 3rd July. > > Is there a way to check downtime of servers, or even an archive of historic events for pool servers? Sorry I don’t get this, if you run a datacenter, why not configure backup servers that you know work even when the pool has a problem. You use a very limited pool, being 3.IE only, it’s unwise to only use such a small section. Entire IE is just 30+ servers. Datacenters typical have their own NTP-server that can be used as primary or as backup. But never seen datacenters to use a tiny pool, mostly using the big pool. Most datacenter I know have their own NTP stratum1, else they select 8~10 stratum 1 servers to feed the datacenter. That way you don’t have this problem. Never feed just 1 line, even when it’s a pool. ---
**Author:** ![lordgurke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.ntppool.org/lordgurke/32/343_2.png) [@lordgurke](https://community.ntppool.org/u/lordgurke)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/3-ie-pool-ntp-org-downtime/2480/5 "2022-07-12T23:21:46Z")
Also, it seems most servers in IE pool are hosted at OVH. If there’s a routing hickup from/towards your datacenter, you will likely not be able to poll the time - and the pool monitoring wouldn’t notice this.