> [...] even if the pool client is going to use IPv6 for NTP, the DNS > lookup will most certainly remain IPv4 for a foreseeable future (as > the DNS is the last infrastructure that will migrate to IPv6).
Migration is not an all-or-nothing thing. Like most services, the DNS can _already_ operate over v6; a v6-connected client querying a v6-connected nameserver can and not implausibly will happen over v6. Like most services, it is already migrating piecemeal. Why would you expect anything else? A nameserver intended to provide service to the v4 net (like the pool nameservers) will of course have to have a v4 address, but that's no different from any other service. It certainly doesn't mean that v6-connected clients will necessarily use v4 to query it. Indeed, as v6-only hosts become more common, some won't be able to. (And, while you may know this, some people probably don't: yes, they exist. They have existed for at least some nine years; when I was in Tromsø back in 2002, the house netlink provided by the university I was working for was v6-only.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
