On 2012 May 09 (Wed) at 23:12:08 -0700 (-0700), Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
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:On May 9, 2012, at 16:42, Anssi Johansson wrote:
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:> Hi, 2.pool.ntp.org has supported AAAA records for nearly a year now. Are
there plans to expand the IPv6 support to the other zones (,0,1,3) as well?
Perhaps in time for the IPv6 launch day on June 6th?
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:Yes, I'm considering that. If anything is holding it up, then it's IPv6
:coverage being much more spotty in many countries. Disproportionally
:many of the IPv6 IPs are in a few countries, and then disproportionally
:many seem to be at just a few providers. Another problem with IPv6 is
:that the IP to country data is much worse, too. I don't want to turn on
:IPv6 and give much worse service to the early adopters.
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:For instance Germany has the best coverage at 345/105 servers (v4/v6).
:Most other countries are much worse. Denmark has 37/3. Spain 19/2.
:Italy 25/1. Sweden 24/2. Russia 94/6. Hungary 64/7. Ukraine 73/4.
:Australia 60/4. Canada 59/5. Even Japan are just at 21/3.
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:Most of the countries with less than a dozen IPv4 servers have zero, one
:or two IPv6 servers.
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:As we get better coverage around the world, we can turn it on.
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:Ask
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:Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/
Wouldn't it make sense to make the IPv6 pool simply be a generic World
pool, with the exception of a few country-specific pools? I agree that
we want the closest servers as is reasonable, but since we have the
chicken-and-the-egg problem having a non-optimized solution is good
enough.
--
His mind is like a steel trap -- full of mice.
-- Foghorn Leghorn
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