-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Janssen wrote: > Laurence wrote: >> pool.ntp.org is currently showing a QuickieNet hosting page and the stats >> pages look like they've been awol since 11pm BST last night. www.ntp.org >> looks ok... >> > This is a limitation of the DNS system. it is not possible to host a > valid webpage on pool.ntp.org > because that is the DNS name used to return the rotating set of valid > NTP servers. > DNS does not know if you want to lookup the pool.ntp.org name to display > a webpage or to > get the address of an NTP server.
Don't blame DNS here. It's not DNS's fault that multiple applications want to use IP addresses for drastically different purposes. It's also not DNS's fault that most browsers assume 'www' in front of names -- www.pool.ntp.org would in fact work. :) As for the SRV records, some other applications are taking advantage of them now. Kerberos 5, as well as some others. ntpd could even auto-configure itself in many ways by doing a SRV lookup for a default time server set -- SRV for hostname.whatever.example.com, then whatever.example.com, then example.com for instance. Knowing when to logically stop so you don't ask for com's SRV records would make sense. - --Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGbbhHuzMQWQwZDN0RAsgIAKCYUJw/VY4QlovyYEAwAAuhlWzcLQCeLYKC lRY00hVK/zfhG6IiSNeEsNM= =GT4P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
