Pool with NTS

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Mon Mar 23 18:20:02 UTC 2026


On 2026-03-23 00:33, Hal Murray via devel wrote:
> [Someplace, there is code that counts servers that also counts the pool
> slots.  They should be skipped.  I think we should fix this even though it
> is a user-visible change.]

Yes, please. This is a pet annoyance of mine. :)

> There is another worm tangled in this can.  The config file processing
> doesn't allow duplicate host names.
> 
> You can get 2 by using -4 and -6.  You can get another factor of 2 by
> using name and name:123 or name and name:4460 for NTS.
> 
> That lets you get all 4 cloudflare servers. 🙂

If you want multiple CloudFlare servers that all have the same name, 
isn't that what "pool" is for? (Of course, you have pointed out problems 
with the "pool" implementation.)

-- 
Richard


More information about the devel mailing list