The China zone gets about 100,000 NTP requests per second (or maybe more, but that order of magnitude). It’s basically impossible to join it without getting tens of thousands of queries per second. To “bootstrap” it I’d like to add 25-30 servers (or more) at once (from anywhere in the world). I’m …

Adding servers to the China zone

faelix July 16, 2018, 1:44pm 134

Our anycast/ECMP node in the UK just hit the .cn pool. Almost instantly: 100Mbit/sec of traffic.

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