Ntp server overload cause?

bah to both of these posts. My home cable connection works great and serves time to thousands of requests per day. my ip address hasn’t changed in a over year.

there’s no major issue with adding a home router to the pool. the limit I’ve discovered is a cap on max number of ntp requests per second. it’s an issue related to iptables requirement for connecting tracking with nat. nftables has a way to selectively eliminate tracking for port 123 but I’m waiting for the new openwrt version 21 to stabilize before pursuing.

for now it works great and I keep the traffic setting at 10Mbits/s on the pool server settings. I get between 80 and 200 NTP requests per second and it works great.

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