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

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 28, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Bud Millwood wrote:
> As a server writer I have a built-in aversion to changing the way we
> distribute location of services, but in this case it seems justified  
> to use a
> DNS name simply because the de-facto standard, as far as I can tell,  
> is to
> point clients outside the admin-controlled domain.

I don't know, this seems backwards to me.   I think that the point of  
typing a configuration into a DHCP server would be a great opportunity  
for a network administrator to stop and think, "do we really want to  
point people off our network?"   I think very few ISPs would  
deliberately make that choice - the reason they aren't currently  
providing NTP service is that they aren't telling people which NTP  
server to contact, and most users don't even know what NTP is.   It's  
not that they have made a decision to provide NTP service using some  
other site's NTP server.

This is a different situation from a router vendor putting a default  
value in, in the sense that an ISP providing configuration information  
is actively advising their customer to do something, whereas a router  
vendor is just doing it.



_______________________________________________
dhcwg mailing list
[e-mail]
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcwg