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On Dec 3, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
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#454059: no way to statically over-ride ntp server list if provided
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From: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: December 3, 2007 7:20:02 AM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#454059: no way to statically
over-ride ntp server list if provided by dhcp
Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2007 schrieb Rick Thomas:
If the DHCP server provides a list of NTP servers, the 1:4.2.2.p3
+dfsg-1
patch will use them to over-ride a static list of servers in
ntp.conf. If
the static list in ntp.conf is actually wanted, there is no way to
tell it
to ignore the list from DHCP.
Please observe the following note in README.Debian:
"""
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.
"""
Thanks for pointing me to the README.Debian comment. Sorry for not
being thorough before I submitted this bugreport!
Just to be sure I've got this straight, is it that case that:
1) The recommended way to over-ride the NTP servers offered by dhcp
is to manually edit the /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf file.
2) There is no configuration option available at debian-installer
time or later via dpkg-reconfigure to turn it off.
Have I got it right?
Thanks!
Rick
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