-----Original Message-----
From: wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:19:55 -0500
Subject: Re: [time] load increase when an ntp server is in the DNS pool

> The TTL on the pool.ntp.org A records is only 1500 seconds.  If these
> clients are querying only once ever 1024 seconds or so, then you will
> generally only get 1.5 ntp requests per DNS lookup.  If they are
> scripts that checks ntpdate, they could very easily query less often,
> say, once per hour.
> 

I doubt it's that simple. Normally one resolver handles queries for many
different clients, so the resolvers will make requests at the rate of the
client that's querying them the most often, with the maximum rate probably
beeing 1 query/TTL.

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