Tony Hoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any kind of caching server will need the numeric prefix.  This has
> been true for as long as I've been using the pool - a year at least,
> and will have been true for as long as caching DNS has existed.
>
> Round robin DNS is different.  That's where there are multiple A
> records for the same name.  The resolver has the choice of returning
> the same address for multiple queries or returning different ones.
> This is not how the pool works.

My logs prove you wrong.

In any case, I wonder if the ntpd authors would be open to the idea of
adding a command-line option that causes it to use all results returned
by getaddrinfo() instead of just the first one, and / or one that causes
it to regularly check DNS for any changes.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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