On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:27:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Peter Eisentraut] > > Would it help you if the NTP server package accepted NTP server > > information from the DHCP server (#268328)? It seems that > > Skolelinux-type networks use a DHCP server anyway, so you could > > point to your local time source there. > > Yes, at least for the time clients it would be great. Now we use DNS > to point the clients to the server, but it would be better if DHCP or > some service location protocol was used instead. > > For the clock server on the local network, DHCP will not make much > difference, as it by default is the DHCP too, so it can not ask itself > to get the IP info.
If you're using dhcp3 and configure it to tell add a hook for ntp, this should work. See /usr/share/doc/ntp/README.Debian.gz Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
