[ntpwg] [dhcwg] NTP option: IP address and/or FQDN

Alain Durand alain_durand at cable.comcast.com
Sun Dec 9 18:54:36 UTC 2007




On 12/9/07 10:16 AM, "Richard Gayraud (rgayraud)" <rgayraud at cisco.com>
wrote:

>   => But more importantly, this does not give any guaranty that a vendor
>      will not ship a small home router with a DHCP server inside, with an
>      embeded NTP server address => worst case.

Excuse me if I'm just adding fuel to the fire, but I still fail to see the
difference between a vendor shipping a home router with a DHCP server that
has an NTP option embedding a hard-coded IP address and the same vendor
shipping a similar product with a hard-coded FQDN...

   - Alain.



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