On Aug 14, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:22:04AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
[I]f we can encourage ISPs to configure their DHCP servers and
whatnot
to access ISP-local NTP servers for normal end-user workstation
clients.
Which OS's actually listen to the NTP options from the DHCP server?
Last
I checked (admittedly, a year or two ago), Mac OS, Windows, and Linux
(debian) all ignore it.
Windows XP SP2 & 2003 seem to honor a DHCP-assigned timeserver, just
as they honor the WPAD option for automatically configuring a proxy
server (proxy.pac or wpad.pac). I'm not sure anything else does yet,
although since both Linux and OS X are using close to a stock version
of the NTPD & ISC DHCP client software, this is something that could
be improved upstream and then be useful for multiple OSes.
Also, how many people have little home routers?
Lots and lots. :-)
Do they accept those DHCP options? And more importantly, do they
pass it on to the PCs behind
them?
I'd be satisfied if they avoided hard-coding IPs like D-Link
did...but I agree with your point, that this home routers need to
accept and propagate any NTP servers they get assigned to their LAN
clients.
--
-Chuck
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