[ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) OptionsforDHCPv6

[TS Glassey]

So Ted how does the DHCP server get refreshed to know that NTP Server "A" is 
dead now?

Todd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Lemon" <mellon at fugue.com>
To: "Mark Andrews" <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
Cc: <ntpwg at lists.ntp.org>; "Danny Mayer" <mayer at ntp.org>; "Richard Gayraud 
(rgayraud)" <rgayraud at cisco.com>; <dhcwg at ietf.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) 
OptionsforDHCPv6


> On Nov 25, 2007, at 6:09 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> I would think that this should be a push operation from the dhcp
>> client rather than a pull operation.
>
> Sure, but it amounts to the same thing.   This is trivial to do with
> the ISC DHCP client (which I presume is the one you use).   It's also
> trivial to do on Linux with dbus.   Mac OS X and Windows handle it
> differently still, but they already have mechanisms in place for doing
> this.   So the point is that if the will exists to make it happen,
> it's trivial to make it happen.
>
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