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 …

Hello, could you add the following countries to my server ? Spain. https://www.pool.ntp.org/fr/scores/82.64.45.50 Thanks in advance. Chris

Hi Chris, 'tis done. Are you trying to get the record for as many countries as possible on one server? :smiley:

Hello Elljay, Thanks for adding Spain. No i’m just trying to help countries with very few (or none) NTP servers…as long as my ISP box works. Because it is the weakest part of my network. [image] Do you know a good and cheap router that can accept 15000 new connections / second ? Chris

Hello, my router went down many times yesterday. could you remove my ntp server from es (spain) zone ? https://www.ntppool.org/scores/82.64.45.50 thx in advance. Chris

@ mlichvar : thanks. I didn’t even thought about this solution…um, i feel sorry.

I havent tried it myself, but I was ones told to disable it in both directions.

A few months since my last post, tick.montreal.ca.logiplex.net is serving many more replies than it had usually been, now at about 25kqps (more than a million a minute) oppose to 15kqps, at the 1000MiBit setting. Things are holding strong but please don’t consider this thread as closed post or ‘done…

Adding servers to the China zone

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mlichvar August 8, 2019, 11:27am 376

Not sure if you need it for some reason, but usually it’s best to disable connection tracking for the NTP port completely. No memory wasted on NTP clients.

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Adding servers to the China zone

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