Rob Janssen wrote: > No, what I mean is that the DNS servers, instead of > rotating the available NTP servers at each > request and thus distributing the load among > all available servers, send the same zone > information for an hour or so.
> So, when your server is in the DNS zone you get a lot of "newcomer" > requests. Can you quantify "a lot"? One a minute? One a second? One hundred a second? Evenly spread through the whole hour or concentrated over a few seconds? My personal standard for "a lot" would be several a second. My server has been serving multiple NTP requests every second for years, so it would be hard for me to notice a rate much slower than one a second. More than a few hundred a second would begin to be a big chunk of my network bandwidth (but would not be taxing the computer of course.) I thought we were in the pool because we wanted to usefully provide time to lots of users :-) Tim. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
