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

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.org
Sun Dec 16 06:39:26 UTC 2007


Brian Haberman wrote:
> 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

Not really. pool and lists of servers are equivalent but only in the
sense that pool needs a FQDN while a list is a set of server addresses
and you would configure them as individual server addresses. However,
you can look up a FQDN but an IP address is fixed for the duration,
whatever that duration may be.

Danny


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