TL;DR executive summary question: where is it all going? Guys, I have been running half-dozen servers from one location and noticed that over the last year the traffic almost tripled and edging towards continuous 100kpps (100Mbps.) They sent more than a trillion NTP packets since that location wa…

The amount of NTP traffic is indeed significant, and the traffic seems to be increasing. My “pie in the sky” goal for NTP would consist of three steps: ISPs set up their own NTP servers ISPs start using DHCP option 42 to disseminate the NTP server information to their clients Devices use the NTP …

In an ideal wishful thinking way along those lines, wouldn’t it give more benefit to have end user network equipment do this in the home? Most ISPs just talk to a single device, right? (And then there’s IPv6 without dhcp, typically).

I can’t thank you enough for the charts Leo — they’re fascinating. I suspect the growth in traffic is at least partly related to the increase in Cloud Computing, per IDC: The public cloud IaaS market grew 51% in 2015. IDC expects this high growth to continue through 2016 and 2017 with a CAGR of m…

On the plus side, at least cloud computing deployments usually use reasonable clients, and Amazon and Google are rolling out their own (leap smearing) NTP services.

I have been working on finishing a new release of the DNS server. I relation to that I have been glancing a bit at query logs. I noticed what seemed like disproportionately many request for country/region specific zones from not-that country.

World-wide pool traffic volume

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Topic		Replies	Views
Diving into the NTP pool (paper) Pool Development	22	1846	March 8, 2022
Steady traffic increase BE since around midnight CET yesterday Server operators	52	668	December 24, 2025
Current Pool Capacity? Pool Development	19	2681	May 21, 2025
Regulating the load of the NTP servers Pool Development	15	471	November 27, 2024
The issue of NTP requests exceeding bandwidth load Server operators	54	1537	November 24, 2024

World-wide pool traffic volume

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