On Tuesday 31 May 2005 23.59, Tim Shoppa wrote: > > better ones hold a preference in DNS > > Am I correct that current DNS implementations don't rank the order > of preference of hosts for NTP? At least not like MX records, where > there is a preference rank. I haven't followed DNS development for a > while.
Yep, correct. Servers are either in or out. IMHO DNS round robin is such a crude tool that trying to tweak at this point would not really get us anywhere. It would be far better to do the 'right' thing and really support round robin set ups natively in ntpd - but I'm not going to do it, sorry about that. cheers -- vbi -- signature virus v1.0 - please use me in your own mail.
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