Hi Hal What about a http lookup using curl or something similar at https://www.ntppool.org/scores/X.X.X.X/log?limit=1&monitor=* ?
It will give you the current score of the IP and probably an error if the IP is not in the pool anymore. Br, Thomas On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 11:52 PM Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there any way for client code to determine if an IP Address is still in > the > pool? Maybe something like a DNS lookup on d.c.b.a.pool.ntp.org > > If there was a way to do that, it would be easy to update servers to check > occasionally and stop using servers that have left the pool. > > That won't catch the case where the pool DNS name is used as a server. If > we put a simple still-there check in the server case, clients would end up > switching servers every time they checked. I don't see any harm in that. > > > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > pool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool > _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
