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It seems not, because, even later: "fr24feed appears to be doing 12 NTP queries direct to servers around the world every ten minutes, which is about three time
by acqq 9y ago
It seems not, because, even later:
"fr24feed appears to be doing 12 NTP queries direct to servers around the world every ten minutes, which is about three times as much load as the pool recommends and appears to be a very high load on the parts of the world where there are few volunteers running NTP servers"
https://forum.flightradar24.com/threads/11042-Excessive-DNS-queries-for-NTP-pool-addresses?s=9c2a36a984a38ff32360f8f3d10efc28&p=101240&viewfull=1#post101240 https://forum.flightradar24.com/threads/11042-Excessive-DNS-...
- SiempreViernes 9y agoWhile 1.2 vs 0.4 requests per minute is indeed a factor of three, calling it "abuse" instead of something like "misconfigured" or "misuse" seems overblown. What are you going to call the initial report of thousands of requests per second then?
- eropple 9y agoIt's not overblown to characterize something about a system you are told not to do "abuse". If it is misuse, it is abuse. Words mean things.
- freehunter 9y agoWords do in fact mean things, and that's why there's so many of them. Abuse and misuse are two similar words with distinct connotations. Abusing something means it's intentional and is causing significant harm. Misusing something means using it in a way that could be accidental or intentional, but is contrary to the way the thing should be used. I have to agree with the other person, unless this was done intentionally and the programmer knew it would cause damage, calling it abuse sounds overly dramatic. I think the word misuse is far more accurate here.
- eropple 9y agoSend an email to misuse@example.com and explain the problem and I'm sure someone will get right on it. Wait--you mean to tell me it's abuse@ for a reason...?
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- Brian_K_White 9y agoThe second they said "we're not fixing that" it became conscious deliberate inconsiderate abuse. That was a typical and awful response to that bug report. The original poster essentially pointed out some bad engineering. "it works for most people" is an utter crap response to that.
- EtDybNuvCu 9y agoI see your point, but I've worked with systems which have quotas like "one read per minute" or "one network request per second". They exist, their quotas are set based on real limits, and we need to be honest about overload on our shared common resources.