On 2008 Jan 28 (Mon) at 04:35:49 +0100 (+0100), Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
: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 Sm??rgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FWIW, OpenNTPD provides that with the 'servers' keyword.
'servers pool.ntp.org' will try to sync with all returned values.
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