Danny Mayer wrote:
How many connections do you think it takes to overwelm a server? Even on an idle connection TCP normally requires at least a minute of timeout
If you enable keep alives, the default timeout is several hours. If you don't enable keepalives, there is no idle traffic at all. You only need keep alives if there is no natural traffic in one direction. Otherwise the first packet towards the side that has forgotten the connection will cause it to reset it.
(lots of caveats, etc. here) but the server needs to drop these connections as quickly as possible in order to get the next one. Don't go there, there's a lot more going on under the hood than you seem to realise from this response.
TCP is actually designed to produce minimal idle traffic. As noted elswhere, there are other reasons for not using TCP for NTP. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
