On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 06:04:54PM +0100, Tore Anderson wrote:
> * Tore Anderson
> 
> > My assumption is that if the amount of IPv6 servers in the country's
> > pool is larger than the amount of IPv6 users in the country, it must
> > surely be safe to return any AAAAs for that country's .pool.ntp.org.
> > 
> > Turns out there's only one country that has a larger deployment of IPv6
> > users than IPv6 members in its pool.ntp.org, and that's Belgium. In
> > be.pool.ntp.org there are 16 IPv4 servers and 5 IPv6 servers, so the
> > latter constitute 23.81% of the total. The amount of IPv6-enabled users
> > is greater: 30.28%.
> 
> On the other hand, I think enabling AAAAs for be.pool.ntp.org would
> also cause a net benefit. Assuming that all of the 30.28% IPv6-enabled
> users in Belgium are also IPv4-capable, they now are sharing the 16
> IPv4 servers in be.pool.ntp.org with the 69.72% non-IPv6-enabled users.

Most of those IPv6-enabled users in .be are by large providers
offering IPv6.  They all should also have IPv4 as far as I know.

> So in summary I think it seems safe to returning AAAAs for every single
> country-specific pool.ntp.org zone, Belgium's included.

I agree.  And not only country-specific zones.


Kurt

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