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

"TS Glassey" <tglassey@earthlink.net> Wed, 21 November 2007 15:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Optionsfor DHCPv6
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Seems like there are two ways to deal with this, either define a set of 
pre-existing names and services ala RFC1918 type thingee or through some 
lookup process in DHCP. Either way it seems that this also plugs into the 
NEA functionality as well.

Todd
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Utterback" <brian.utterback@sun.com>
To: "Danny Mayer" <mayer@ntp.org>
Cc: <ntpwg@lists.ntp.org>; <dhcwg@ietf.org>; "Ted Lemon" <mellon@fugue.com>; 
"Richard Gayraud (rgayraud)" <rgayraud@cisco.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Optionsfor 
DHCPv6


>
>
> Danny Mayer wrote:
>
>> If you want to use the DHCP server essentially as a resolver (it looks
>> up the addresses and sends them to the NTP server) that's fine except
>> there's no mechanism currently in place to do that.
>>
>> Danny
>
> Well, certainly we would need a way to update the servers used by
> ntpd. The obvious choice is to restart, but the requests I made to
> the hackers list for arbitrary command line config specification
> was specifically to allow just such a mechanism for update be
> available to the O/S when new servers came in via DHCP.
>
> -- 
> blu
>
> "You've added a new disk. Do you want to replace your current
> drive, protect your data from a drive failure or expand your
> storage capacity?" - Disk management as it should be.
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