Re: [Pool] Getting close to 1000 IPv6 servers

2013-03-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:48 PM, Markku Miettinen su...@surfa.name wrote: This is absolutely the way that a client SHOULD NOT work and this is what many OS and application developers with IETF have been trying to shoot down for years. It is not how IPv6 works as stated one of latter e-mails.

Re: [Pool] Getting close to 1000 IPv6 servers

2013-03-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 12.03.13 22:48, schrieb Markku Miettinen: This is absolutely the way that a client SHOULD NOT work and this is what many OS and application developers with IETF have been trying to shoot down for years. It is not how IPv6 works as stated one of latter e-mails. No no no. It works exactly as

Re: [Pool] address record selection in DNS responses

2013-03-13 Thread Rob Janssen
Mouse wrote: There is NOTHING in the DNS protocol for a client to signal that it prefers $ Isn't that what the QTYPE is for? As far as I can tell, the only way to ever get both A and in the answer section to a single query is to query for type ANY, which isn't usually done because of

Re: [Pool] oops - short web outage

2013-03-13 Thread Anssi Johansson
Fabian Wenk kirjoitti: I am not sure if the traffic pattern change I see on two of my NTP server have something to do with this DNS update or not. Please have a look at the graphs at [1]. Since March 1st (Friday) I see a higher base level of requests on ntp1 + ntp3.home4u.ch and also lower

Re: [Pool] address record selection in DNS responses

2013-03-13 Thread Mouse
As far as I can tell, the only way to ever get both A and in the answer section to a single query is to query for type ANY [...] According to the original RFC1035 DNS protocol specification, the question section of the DNS request packet can contain any number of queries, usually 1 it

Re: [Pool] Encouraging IPv6 use

2013-03-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 07:49:33PM -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: On my TODO are adding some new features to the vendor zones (*.fedora.pool.ntp.org, etc) so the vendor can choose if their clients are SNTP or NTP clients, if they want IPv6, if they use the pool or server configuration for