Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) OptionsforDHCPv6

Well, kudos to ISP's that do it right. My experience is that
most of them are not nearly as responsible. None of the last
three ISP's I have used at home (all in the U.S. top ten) even
provided NTP servers, let alone served them up in DHCP options.
Of course, none of the last 4 routers I used would have done
anything with them if they had.

anthony.flavin@bt.com wrote:
> Completely wrong.
> 
> I can assure you that we do run our own NTP servers, and our customer
> routers are pre-configured with a Name not an IP address to get to them.
> We let our DNS servers sort out the load balancing issues (if we ever
> get any).
> 
> It's working fine, and several hundred-thousand clients can't be wrong!
>  
> Tony Flavin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad@shub-internet.org] 
> Sent: 27 November 2007 07:01
> To: Mark Andrews; Flavin,AJ,Tony,DMJ R
> Cc: mayer@ntp.isc.org; ntpwg@lists.ntp.org; mellon@fugue.com;
> rgayraud@cisco.com; dhcwg@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP)
> OptionsforDHCPv6
> 
> On 11/26/07, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
>> 	ISP's will do similar things with NTP servers.  They will point
>> 	the DHCP clients to their NTP servers.  SOHO routeres will just
>> 	re advertise what they learnt.
> 
> No, the ISPs don't work this way.  I have yet to see many ISPs that have
> demonstrated any capacity or interest in setting up their own NTP
> server.  If they use NTP at all, in almost all cases they rely on
> external NTP servers.  It is these same external servers that they would
> plug into their DHCP servers (because they can't be bothered to run
> their own NTP servers), and which would then be passed on to the
> clients.
> 
> Which leads us to the mess that Danny is trying to help prevent.
> 
>> 	This is a non-issue.
> 
> I'm not convinced of that.
> 
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