On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: > > ntp now takes servers from the dhcp client without asking, and > > without being overridable. > > I quote from /usr/share/doc/ntp/README.Debian.gz: > > """ > If DHCP is used to configure the host, and the DHCP server sends > information about NTP servers, then this information will be used > automatically. This is done by making a copy of /etc/ntp.conf at > /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp, replacing the server entries with the information > provided by the DHCP server, and restarting the NTP server. > > In order for this to work, the "ntp-servers" option must be mentioned > in the "request" statement in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. This is not > the case in a default installation. A complete configuration might > look like this, for example: > > request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, > domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name, > netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu, > ntp-servers; > > If you don't like using the NTP servers sent by the DHCP server, this > is also the right place to turn off this behavior. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > """
This was as default, and hence was off. I won't be on this dhcp network until at least Monday, and shall try it again then with some debug output. This may well be a dhcp3 bug. Perhaps new_ntp_servers is being receieved and passed on even though not requested. -- Tim Connors http://site.aao.gov.au/twc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]