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

[TS Glassey]

Who maintains the pool list by the way?

Todd Glassey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Mayer" <mayer at ntp.org>
To: "Brian Haberman" <brian at innovationslab.net>
Cc: "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: Saturday, December 15, 2007 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] NTP option: IP address and/or FQDN


> 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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