Minor correction on this one: While some examples in the repository have this commented hint regarding IPv6 support in an NTP Pool zone, the one that seems to make it into the Debian package provided by the project does not.
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It seems to be even worse:
$ host 2.ntpd-rs.pool.ntp.org.
Host 2.ntpd-rs.pool.ntp.org. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
All the numbered addresses in the ntpd-rs subdomain fail the DNS lookup from my end.
Not always: Network Tools: DNS,IP,Email
I thought you were referring to the vendor domain for ntpd-rs and similarly rather recent vendor domains, such as the one for Navix. Those are what I was referring to as failing DNS resolution of numbered subdomains not only from your end, but generally, as those subdomains simply don’t exist.
I didn’t mean to say no vendor zones at all do have numbered subdomains. “Older” ones, like for Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, OpenWrt, RHEL, Fedora, Nokia, Siemens, and many others certainly do.
Arch Linux uses vendor zone with numbered servers since 2014, just two years after they migrated to systemd.
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Thanks for this insight! That made me curious, and I checked from the Debian package sources:
Debian systemd-timesyncd uses all four numbered vendor zones as built-in default, while Ubuntu seem to use their own IPv6-enabled NTP servers.