Danny Mayer wrote: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Perhaps I should rephrase that. >> >> "NTP could use a simple registration protocol if the pools >> folks wanted to open up the pools to dynamic hosts." >> > > Please don't do this. (...)
While I pointed out how it _could_ be done, I agree that it's not a good idea to actually implement this. Implementing this would only make sense if there are many NTP servers out there that would be eligible for pool membership if it weren't for the fact that they're on dynamic IP addresses. Additionally, those servers would have remain on the same IP address for a "long time", such that IP address changes are "infrequent" (whatever that means). There definitely are such NTP servers (e.g. servers on SHDSL lines that don't have a fixed IP address but retain their IP address for several weeks if not months). I don't know whether it's worth the effort for the pool maintainers to tap into this resource, because I don't know how large it is. In my view however, no change to ntpd should be necessary, particularly given the re-resolving logic that appears to be in the works. Cheers, Jan _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
