Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: (I suggested that pool members with non-static IP addresses could be accommodated by the pool).
>> And the protocol already exists: it's called dynamic DNS. > > Care to flesh out how you envision this working? The pool is essentially a fancy name server. Pool members could use the existing dynamic DNS protocol to register their current IP address with the pool. Perhaps in addition to registering with their regular dynamic DNS provider, if they provide services other than NTP. Advantages: dynamic DNS clients exist for lots of platforms. Disadvantages: I don't know whether dynamic DNS servers are readily available to be integrated with the rest of the pool server software. Moreover, the pool would also need to use low TTL values (but then I think it already is). The other disadvantage is that pool clients might, for a limited period of time, hammer whoever next receives the IP address previously held by a pool server. Malevolant such inherintants of IP addresses might reduce the perceived quality of the pool by telling the wrong time. Regards, Jan _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
