On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:52:21AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > If a very large organization like TT caches the result and fails to > rotate the IPs in round-robin fashion, then any clients using those > TT nameservers are going to hammer the IP which was first in the > result from the pool.ntp.org nameservers.
Hmmm, a very evil "solution" of making sure that the first result record given to said organizations is always something silly, say 127.0.0.1 or 169.254.0.1, comes to mind. /me wonders what the effects would be of doing it in general. Probably wouldn't break ntpd too badly if you have working round robin because you've got a 74% chance of not even seeing the silly value, and a much higher chance of getting at least 3 working servers. </evil> -- BOFH excuse #52: Smell from unhygienic janitorial staff wrecked the tape heads _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
