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

[David W. Hankins]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:46:19PM -0500, Danny Mayer wrote:
> DNS is required for the pool configuration option. IP addresses are
> strongly discouraged from the server configuration option for the same
> reasons. The only time I can see allowing DHCP provided IP addresses is
> if those addresses are link-local or site-local. That way we'd guarantee
> that they were not going to bombard a remote NTP server with requests.

In this case, you would have to make similar requirements of any IP
addresses delivered via the intermediaries between the DHCP option
and ntp.conf, or else you really haven't gotten that gurantee.

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