Re: [Pool] Is there a way to tell if an IP Address is still in the pool?

2013-02-25 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Monday, February 25, 2013 at 0:04, Henk P. Penning wrote: Maybe ntpd should, for each pool association, keep a timestamp last seen in dns, and make decisions based on that ; like maybe drop if not seen for 3 months. Some zones have more than 500 servers, it's completely possible that you

Re: [Pool] Is there a way to tell if an IP Address is still in the pool?

2013-02-25 Thread Hal Murray
ken...@kenyonralph.com said: The pool command works great for me. Thanks. I'm slightly surprised that nobody else has responded. If people respond to me off-list, I'll summarize in a few days. ken...@kenyonralph.com said: Why would you do this? If the pool monitoring system reduces the

Re: [Pool] Is there a way to tell if an IP Address is still in the pool?

2013-02-25 Thread Hal Murray
a...@ntppool.org said: Is there a way to do that? I assume it would use DNS. There isn't. I could setup a DNSBL-style zone to check is this server still ok to use, but I don't think that's really what we need. I was thinking of something like if you got 1.2.3.4 from de.pool.ntp.org you

[Pool] Is there a way to tell if an IP Address is still in the pool?

2013-02-24 Thread Hal Murray
Harlan is getting ready to release the next version of the standard NTP package. The pool command seems to work. How many of you are testing it? I think clients using the pool should occasionally check to see if an address they picked is still in the pool and pick another one if it has

Re: [Pool] Is there a way to tell if an IP Address is still in the pool?

2013-02-24 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 2013-02-24T17:30:01-0800, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: Harlan is getting ready to release the next version of the standard NTP package. The pool command seems to work. How many of you are testing it? The pool command works great for me. I think clients using the pool should

Re: [Pool] Is there a way to tell if an IP Address is still in the pool?

2013-02-24 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 17:30, Hal Murray wrote: Harlan is getting ready to release the next version of the standard NTP package. Great! The pool command seems to work. How many of you are testing it? I think clients using the pool should occasionally check to see if an address