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

[TS Glassey]

Brian and Harlan...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Haberman" <brian at innovationslab.net>
To: "Harlan Stenn" <stenn at ntp.org>
Cc: "Danny Mayer" <mayer at ntp.org>; "Ralph Droms (rdroms)" 
<rdroms at cisco.com>; "Alain Durand" <alain_durand at cable.comcast.com>; "NTP 
Working Group" <ntpwg at lists.ntp.isc.org>; "MORAND Lionel RD-CORE-ISS" 
<lionel.morand at orange-ftgroup.com>; "DHC WG" <dhcwg at ietf.org>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] NTP option: IP address and/or FQDN


> Harlen,
>      Several people in Vancouver made the point in the DHC meeting that
> the option should support a list of NTP servers (including me).  By
> acquiring a list via DHCPv6, an NTP implementation can configure the
> pool option correctly.
>
> Regards,
> Brian
>
>
> Harlan Stenn wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> I like the *option* (or ability) to get a FQDN for an NTP server from 
>> DHCP.

I agree. Will there be autokey data available in that list as well?

>>
>> And I do not know if an NTP server will be talking directly to a DHCP
>> service or if that will go thru a 'shim' process.  The details of this
>> mechanism is probably not important.
>>
>> And if DHCP can feed a *list* of addresses to NTP, that is very useful
>> as well.  In this case, the DHCP server could take the list of addresses
>> that FQDN resolves into and pass that list along.
>>
>> H
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