[ntpwg] [dhcwg] NTP option: IP address and/or FQDN

[Hal Murray]

> Whereas the Hard-coded IP address would be getting a request every 64
> seconds or so. Much less traffic.

You are assuming a particular retransmission heuristic.

In one prominent case, the retransmission rate was onc per second.

A sane approach would use exponential backoff to get a long term average load 
that is much less than every 64 seconds.


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