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Apr. 26th, 2008 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torkellThings that make sysadmins go "WTFOMGLOLBBQ???!?!!": network activity lights on solid (or, in this case, constantly flashing).
Pull up task manager, see that incoming and outgoing traffic is equal at about 36kB/s. Curious. Fire up etheral, set it going, and see a ridiculous rate of NTP packets between this computer (acting as server)... and the router (acting as client). WTF?
I thought the brain-dead embedded NTP clients got given some brains a few years back, or at least enough sense to not try to flood a NTP server.
Pull up task manager, see that incoming and outgoing traffic is equal at about 36kB/s. Curious. Fire up etheral, set it going, and see a ridiculous rate of NTP packets between this computer (acting as server)... and the router (acting as client). WTF?
I thought the brain-dead embedded NTP clients got given some brains a few years back, or at least enough sense to not try to flood a NTP server.
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Date: 2008-04-26 11:29 pm (UTC)I've got a creaky old sysadmin colleague at work that keeps on causing problems because he doesn't understand ntp either. He seems to adopt the same solution my adsl router does -- poll it once a day, but forget to poll it after a boot. Oh and DST? Hah!