A ton of *Soliciting pool server* in my syslog
by tuxthegreat from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5750V)
Running Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and in my syslog it's filled with this spam Thousands of lines of it.Code:Aug 20 19:57:19 odroid ntpd[1027]: Soliciting pool server 91.189.91.157
Aug 20 19:57:21 odroid ntpd[1027]: Soliciting pool server 2001:67c:24c:1::21
Aug 20 19:57:28 odroid ntpd[1027]: Soliciting pool server 91.212.242.21
Aug 20 19:57:46 odroid ntpd[1027]: Soliciting pool server 91.212.242.21I searched around the web and found this ntpq -c pe Code:root@odroid:/var/log# ntpq -c pe
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
0.ubuntu.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
1.ubuntu.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
2.ubuntu.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
3.ubuntu.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
ntp.ubuntu.com .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
+s2.popke.pl 194.146.251.100 2 u 43 1024 177 25.300 1.821 5.550
*31-179-32-133.d .GPS. 1 u 555 1024 377 35.057 -4.126 32.015 What do you make of this? Is this spam normal function or is something broken? What is this popke.pl ?
Aug 20 19:57:21 odroid ntpd[1027]: Soliciting pool server 2001:67c:24c:1::21
Aug 20 19:57:28 odroid ntpd[1027]: Soliciting pool server 91.212.242.21
Aug 20 19:57:46 odroid ntpd[1027]: Soliciting pool server 91.212.242.21I searched around the web and found this ntpq -c pe Code:root@odroid:/var/log# ntpq -c pe
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
0.ubuntu.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
1.ubuntu.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
2.ubuntu.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
3.ubuntu.pool.n .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
ntp.ubuntu.com .POOL. 16 p - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
+s2.popke.pl 194.146.251.100 2 u 43 1024 177 25.300 1.821 5.550
*31-179-32-133.d .GPS. 1 u 555 1024 377 35.057 -4.126 32.015 What do you make of this? Is this spam normal function or is something broken? What is this popke.pl ?