# Tips/tricks for a new NTP server operator?

**URL:** <https://community.ntppool.org/t/tips-tricks-for-a-new-ntp-server-operator/4708>\
**Category:** Server operators\
**Created:** [September 14, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/tips-tricks-for-a-new-ntp-server-operator/4708 "2026-09-14T23:59:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![ebahapo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.ntppool.org/ebahapo/32/1152_2.png) [@ebahapo](https://community.ntppool.org/u/ebahapo)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/tips-tricks-for-a-new-ntp-server-operator/4708/6 "2026-09-17T17:49:50Z")

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Unless you have heavy duty network gear and connection, add only IPv6 servers to the pool. There are far fewer cases of abuse and ill behaved clients. It’s night and day compared to IPv4.

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