[time] we need more servers (Was: How can I know number of people use my ntp?)

[Vincent Zweije]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:14:27PM -0800, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote:

||  It might be worthwhile to have the DNS code be able to weigh servers
||  differently (so Big Well Connected Servers can get more traffic sent to
||  them than puny DSL linked boxes).

DNS SRV records come to mind.

This can be built in ntpd itself.  It can ask for SRV records of
pool.ntp.org, get a list of hostnames with attached weights, and select
from those hostnames according to the weights.

Then, there's the question of how to automate setting the weights.

I suspect that SRV record usage will have a noticeable effect, but
probably still not enough in the long term.

Ciao.                                                          Vincent.
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