> > These spikes appear to be caused by some kind of client that does a > DNS lookup before each query. This really concerns me because the > size of the DNS lookup is actually significantly larger than the size > of the NTP packets and we are going to have a *much* harder time > distributing the load on the name servers. > > So, these clients, if the continue to grow in numbers, threaten the > scaling of the pool name servers, rather than the pool ntp servers. > This is something I really hadn't seriously considered before. >
I doubt it would be much of a problem. The DNS records are cached at the upstream resolver, and the TTL is fairly large. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
