Martin Burnicki <martin.burni...@meinberg.de> wrote: >> I don't want DHCP to modify my NTP settings, or to restart ntpd. >> (of course the neat thing about the above solution is that it is not >> required to restart ntpd. in Debian, for example, ntpd is restarted when >> a DHCP lease with changed ntp option is received) > > For standard deployments on a huge number of clients the DHCP way very > much simplifies installation since you only have to configure the DHCP > server. > > On the other hand, it would be good if there was a simple (easy-to-find) > switch where you could disable such automatics.
Of course DHCP in itself is great, and I like it when devices (and maybe workstations) automatically obtain the local timeserver address. But what I DON'T like is when my carefully configured NTP server with local refclock and configured secondary servers is turned into a client of itself or another local system. I agree that the enable/disable of this feature is often absent or very hard to find. Often you have to edit /etc/dhclient.conf or just remove some script from /etc/dhclient.d but it is dangerous because it may re-appear after a security update. A simple "NTP_USE_DHCP=yes" that you can set to "no" when desired in /etc/sysconfig/ntp or /etc/default/ntp would be so much better... _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
