* Joseph B

> I would be very surprised if 50 percent of the NTP requests in our
> region would be requested by hosts on IPv6.

Me too; according to Google's data, IPv6 end-user deployment in .au is
just at 1.20% and in .nz 0.88%. So the IPv6 load ought to be miniscule.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption

It would appear that the country-specific "2" hostnames do work as
expected already, for example "2.az.pool.ntp.org" returns no AAAAs
because there is apparently no IPv6-enabled servers in Azerbaijan.

In Portugal, on the other hand, there is only 1 IPv6-enabled server in
the pool, which *is* returned by "2.pt.pool.ntp.org".

So I guess that the concern isn't with the absolute number of IPv6
servers available in a given region, but rather the ratio between IPv4
and IPv6 servers?

If so, one possible solution could perhaps be that it could be made so
that AAAAs for a region-specific hostname would be returned IFF the
number of IPv6-enabled servers wasn't too low compared to IPv4? I tried
to find such examples of countries with few IPv6 servers compared to
IPv4; the worst example I've seen so far is Portugal with a single IPv6
server and 8 IPv4 ones.

Tore



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