[ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

unruh unruh at invalid.ca
Wed Feb 6 22:26:27 UTC 2013


On 2013-02-06, Robert Scott <no-one at notreal.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:27:56 +0000, David Woolley
><david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid> wrote:
>
>>no-one at no-place.org wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> where hints has been set up to define a socket type of SOCK_DGRAM and
>>> family of AF_INET.  As expected, the Internet address returned in
>>> *gaires does change from time to time.  But it seems that it often
>>
>>That could well be considered a denial of service attack on the pool DNS 
>>server!
>
> I have only done it about 20 times in one day.  How else is one
> supposed to develop SNTP client code?  I have tried to keep testing to
> an absolute minimum, but early testing is unavoidable.

Set up your own server and use that during the testing phase. Only when
everything it working start to use public facilities. "I am designing an
airplane, and it keeps crashing into cities. But how else can I test
it?"

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