Update, October 18: Production is switching to PostgreSQL today. The beta site has run on Postgres since September 21. In testing, the production conversion took about 10 minutes of database work; we expect the website and management interface to be down for an hour or two in all. DNS and NTP service aren’t affected.
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Since last Tuesday some countries have seen an excessive number of queries to the NTP Pool. After much detective work on nanog (conclusion) and the #NTP IRC channel it was determined to be a buggy Snapchat app update.