I take a big hit in queries

[NTPman]

@john1

So the point is, the “central infrastructure” cannot know how many NTP queries a DNS query will result in.

I proposed once a solution for that: https://community.ntppool.org/t/load-feedback-from-the-ntp-servers-to-the-pool-infrastructure , but there wasn’t any real interest in it. The idea is simple, NTP servers could report their load to the pool infrastructure.