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Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Options for DHCPv6

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Wed, 28 November 2007 13:55 UTC

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> Which implies that the NTP client now needs to become fully DHCP aware.

I was going to say something like that too...  But I poked around a bit.

One alternative is that the DHCP client is NTP aware.  :)

/sbin/dhclient-script on my Linux box stuffs server lines into ntp.conf   I 
think it's smart enough to restart ntpd if the list of ntp servers changes.  
I didn't check all the fine print or try to test it.  Ugly, but probably good 
enough.

A comment says dhclient-script came from NetBSD so others have probably 
copied the idea.




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