[Freedombox-discuss] Large amount of traffic apparently related to ntp.

[A. F. Cano]

Hi,

This has been happening for months or possibly even years.  It seemed to
have stopped recently, but it's back.

I see continous traffic (about 38Kb/s out, 25 Kb/s in, per iftop) from

pool-108-50-237-254.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net:50035

and most recently 

pool-108-50-237-254.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net:55943

These high ports seem to be random and searching for them has returned
nothing.

I have found this:

https://community.ntppool.org/t/what-is-city-state-fios-verizon-net/1604

That seems to indicate this is related to ntp.

This traffic, while it goes on, seems to go on for hours or days.  The
above page seems to indicate that this is misbehavior by verizon, but it
doesn't explain exactly what is going on and why the FreedomBox is
establishing this high volume of traffic with this site at verizon.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?

Thanks.

Augustine