Tim Shoppa wrote: > > 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.
When the system is listed by DNS there are several requests per second, also depending on the time of day. It is not a "problem" because the clients are friendly. It would be trouble if they did antisocial things like bursting. Of course this is the service that is intended. I only bring it up because it would be better smoothed when the DNS behaved differently. The current behaviour is fine for clients like ntpd that make a single DNS request at startup and then stay with that server for permanent sync. it does not matter much how the clients are distributed amongst the servers as they are going to stay a long time anyway. However, for the case of "do DNS lookup then make 1 request and go away" we would have a much smoother distribution when every DNS requests returns a different server address, instead of a block that remains fixed for an hour or so. Rob _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
