I have noticed a sharp drop off in IPv6 traffic on my servers and a few new servers I spun up are not getting any traffic. Doing a quick dig AAAA pool.ntp.org returns no IP addresses.
Is this related to the recent issues noted on the Status page?
Hello @CrimPac,
Welcome to the community!
Three aspects to your questions:
- Only 2.pool.ntp.org (and analogue country, region, and vendor zones starting with “2.”) even returns AAAA records, see this lengthy thread. All other numbered and unnumbered zones only return A records.
- There indeed currently is an issue with the zone file not getting updated, i.e., any changes to server configurations, e.g., additions, removals, netspeed changes, … are currently not getting reflected in the DNS. Thus, any of those changes are also not getting reflected in the trafic patterns, e.g., new servers not getting traffic.
- The recent issues noted on the Status page are a bit outdated. They reflect some underlying issue that pops up every now and then. But the current issues, also this one, are likely caused by the currently ongoing migration of the Pool infrastructure away from Equinix Metal to some other infrastructure.
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