[tz] NIST URLs for leap-seconds.list in leapseconds.awk

[Fred Gleason]

On Jan 10, 2024, at 12:20 PM, PoolMUC via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> After recent updates to leapseconds.awk to include IERS as a source for leap-seconds.list, one URL given for the file at NIST still is ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list:
>  
>   print "# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain"
>   print "# NIST/IERS format leap-seconds.list file, which can be copied from"
>   print "# <https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list>"
>   print "# or, in a variant with different comments, from"
>   print "# <ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list>"
>   print "# or <ftp://ftp.boulder.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list>."
>  
> However, at least for me, and at this time, the hostname ftp.nist.gov <http://ftp.nist.gov/> does not resolve. ftp.boulder.nist.gov <http://ftp.boulder.nist.gov/> does resolve.

Seeing the same thing here (Washington DC):

*** snip snip ***
[fredg at elastigirl ~]$ dig @gea.nist.gov ftp.nist.gov

; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-P2-RedHat-9.11.4-26.P2.el7_9.15 <<>> @gea.nist.gov ftp.nist.gov
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6750
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1220
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ftp.nist.gov.			IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nist.gov.		300	IN	SOA	gea.nist.gov. netops.nist.gov. 3435747 10800 1080 2419200 300

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 129.6.92.10#53(129.6.92.10)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 10 12:31:43 EST 2024
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 88
*** snip snip ***

Cheers!


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