2AM

Brain: "hey, what if we needed to build an NTP server to handle 100k qps?"

Me: "What?"

@kwf Always interested in a 2am thought exercise, but ... I thought NTP's client backoff strategy would make sustaining this level of qps unnecessary, by design
D-Link Firmware Abuses Open NTP Servers - Slashdot

DES writes "FreeBSD developer and NTP buff Poul-Henning Kamp runs a stratum-1 NTP server specifically for the benefit of networks directly connected to the Danish Internet Exchange (DIX). Some time last fall, however, D-Link started including his server in a hardcoded list in their router firmware....