[ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Options for DHCPv6

[Brian Utterback]

Danny Mayer wrote:

> If you want to use the DHCP server essentially as a resolver (it looks
> up the addresses and sends them to the NTP server) that's fine except
> there's no mechanism currently in place to do that.
> 
> Danny

Well, certainly we would need a way to update the servers used by
ntpd. The obvious choice is to restart, but the requests I made to
the hackers list for arbitrary command line config specification
was specifically to allow just such a mechanism for update be
available to the O/S when new servers came in via DHCP.

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