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Simon Arlott wrote:
> On 16/06/07 04:16, M Graff wrote:
>> Since I see 12 A records in the response to "dig pool.ntp.org a" right
>> now, and I have all the data available (all NS servers in the response,
>> as well as their addresses), it comes out to 388 bytes.  You still want
>> to stay below 512 bytes (unless EDNS0 is used, then the client says how
>> big it can handle) so 512 = 388 = 124 bytes left.
> 
> Who queries for RR type ANY? Surely everyone does AAAA, A - if doing both at 
> once were possible then why isn't anyone doing it?

No DNS server will, of course.  I posted when I was half asleep.  We can
surely add many AAAA records, each about twice as large as an A record.

>> In fact, if one wanted to add an IPv6 address hard-coded for a few days
>> to see if there are any pool users with IPv6, I offer my host.  At least
>> then we can see the relative importance of IPv6 over other matters.
> 
> But people who use IPv6 may not restart ntpd in that time ;)

This is true, but it's not like we're going to have IPv6 support in the
web interface in a few months I suspect.

- --Michael

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