Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
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Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
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Re: Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
#2Reminds me of when Netgear decided to use the University of Wisconsin NTP servers as the default in their consumer products: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
Re: Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
#3Hats off to everyone contributing to public services like this.
My then company wanted to give back ny doing this many years ago and it was an eye opening experience. We had troubles almost immediately with utilization and script kiddies. The company ended up only doing it for a relatively short period and ended up making contributions to projects instead
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#4Re: Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
#5It was mainly due to the poorly coded snapshat program: https://news.ntppool.org/2016/12/load/
EDIT: this post was indeed from 2014. My bad then. however the same issue started again two weeks ago (~17 dec 2016).
Re: Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
#6It was mainly due to the poorly coded snapshat program: https://news.ntppool.org/2016/12/load/ EDIT: this post was indeed from 2014. My bad then. however the same issue started again two weeks ago (~17 dec 2016).
Seems like the post was written in 2014 while the Snapchat NTP issue was more recent.
Re: Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
#7It was mainly due to the poorly coded snapshat program: https://news.ntppool.org/2016/12/load/ EDIT: this post was indeed from 2014. My bad then. however the same issue started again two weeks ago (~17 dec 2016).
this post was from 2014, so I doubt it was this months snapchat issue
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#8part 2: https://blog.pivotal.io/labs/labs/ntp-server-costing-500year...
I wish he'd explained somewhere how they leapt to examining virtualized NTP clients, or what they ultimately did (since there's no part 3 that I can find).
Re: Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
#9It was mainly due to the poorly coded snapshat program: https://news.ntppool.org/2016/12/load/ EDIT: this post was indeed from 2014. My bad then. however the same issue started again two weeks ago (~17 dec 2016).
It was mainly due to Virtualbox querying every 64 seconds.
Re: Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
#10Reminds me of when Netgear decided to use the University of Wisconsin NTP servers as the default in their consumer products: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
How is that even legal?