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

[Brad Knowles]

On 11/26/07, Mark Andrews wrote:

>	ISP's will do similar things with NTP servers.  They will point
>	the DHCP clients to their NTP servers.  SOHO routeres will just
>	re advertise what they learnt.

No, the ISPs don't work this way.  I have yet to see many ISPs that 
have demonstrated any capacity or interest in setting up their own 
NTP server.  If they use NTP at all, in almost all cases they rely on 
external NTP servers.  It is these same external servers that they 
would plug into their DHCP servers (because they can't be bothered to 
run their own NTP servers), and which would then be passed on to the 
clients.

Which leads us to the mess that Danny is trying to help prevent.

>	This is a non-issue.

I'm not convinced of that.

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