Hi Guillaume, Guillaume Le Vaillant <g...@posteo.net> writes:
> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 08:30:32AM +0000, Guillaume Le Vaillant wrote: >>> On an IPv6-only network, the default configuration for ntp-service-type >>> doesn't work, because the default pool used (<0.guix.pool.ntp.org>) >>> doesn't have IPv6 addresses. >>> >>> In fact, the <1.guix.pool.ntp.org> and <3.guix.pool.ntp.org> pools don't >>> have IPv6 addresses either. Only the <2.guix.pool.ntp.org> pool works >>> with IPv6. >>> >>> Would it be possible to add IPv6 support to pools 0, 1 and 3? >> >> It's not something that we, as Guix, can do. >> >> The NTP pool is run by a separate organization, and the question of >> which DNS names should return AAAA (IPv6) records is open: >> >> https://community.ntppool.org/t/the-time-has-come-we-must-enable-ipv6-entirely/1968 >> >> However, the reason they give us 4 different addresses is so that we can >> spread the load around. Our NTP services should choose randomly at >> run-time. Or we could just make number 2 the default, and then we'll >> have IPv6 support. Or something more complicated... > > Thanks for the info. I'm now using pool 2 as the default on my IPv6-only > machines, and it works well. I've now made pool 2 our default configuration address, in commit 503919fcf0 ("services: ntp: Default to an address that supports IPv6."). Closing. -- Thanks, Maxim
