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

[Danny Mayer]

Ted Lemon wrote:
> 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.

It's trivial to send a private mode 7 NTP packet (along with an
appropriate password) to the reference implementation of ntpd telling it
to add or remove a server from its list of servers to use. As far as I
know only ntpdc does this currently and it's not a DHC client.

Danny