On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 06:49:38PM +0100, Rob Janssen wrote: > How about providing a feature in the pool DNS to configure a preferred set of > servers for > requests that were made from some specified resolver? > > That way the customers of some ISP could be directed to the timeservers > provided by that ISP, > and similar for other networks that have good timeservers and a DNS resolver. > It would relieve
The idea is somewhat interesting, as it probably would take load off some ntp servers. But instead places a notable higher load on the pool dns servers, as they now have to query an additional database to check for any special rules and probably the vast majority of these queries will return "nothing special, continue with normal procedures". Just a thought: ISP Networks usually have their own DNS resolvers, and could manipulate the pool responses to point to their own servers, unless they are signed. So no additional load on the pool DNS servers, and reduced load on ntp servers. Though that's probably far outside of the best practices in the DNS world. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
