Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
one thing that has been bothering me for ages is the use of hardcoded NTP-servers in the installer. Since NTP can obviously easily be abused for DDoS reflection attacks, many ISPs block the use of arbitrary NTP-servers, and instead provide an internal NTP server, which is typically announced via DHCP (in environments that use DHCP for setting up networking). Of course my university ids among these "ISPs", which means that for the last decade all of my Debian installations that i did on premises stalled (for a while) when the installer tries to get the network time (for which i think it queries *.debian.pool.ntp.org, but i haven't actually checked). it would be nice if the installer would *prefer* any NTP servers announced via DHCP (and use the debian.pool as a fallback). the current behaviour is not exactly a show-stopper, as it is easy to just cancel the time synchronisation (assuming that the hardware clock is within reasonable range). nevertheless it is annoying. otherwise i have been enjoying the installer. thank you very much. gasdmr IOhannes
