Bug#560046: Add option to ignore DHCP timeservers

2013-04-18 Thread Hamish
Hi, a bit of a "me too" post; running stable/squeeze here, and all our machines are without functioning ntp. :-( The central campus DHCP supplies a couple of campus-hosted ntp servers. This overrides the ones I've set in /etc/ntp.conf. The central campus DHCP servers are all down & who knows when

Bug#560046: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#560046: Bug#560046: Add option to ignore DHCP timeservers

2009-12-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:15:20PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tis, 2009-12-08 at 10:24 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > The attached patch adds a IGNORE_DHCP option to /etc/default/ntp to > > allow you to completely ignore the timeservers given by DHCP. > > Why did you configure your

Bug#560046: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#560046: Add option to ignore DHCP timeservers

2009-12-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2009-12-08 at 10:24 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > The attached patch adds a IGNORE_DHCP option to /etc/default/ntp to > allow you to completely ignore the timeservers given by DHCP. Why did you configure your DHCP client to fetch the time servers in the first place? -- To UNSUBS

Bug#560046: Add option to ignore DHCP timeservers

2009-12-08 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.4p7+dfsg-4 Severity: normal File: /etc/init.d/ntp Tags: patch Especially with static DHCP (where you always have the DHCP server give the same IP to a given MAC), you wind up with servers on DHCP. Including, say, time servers. The attached patch adds a IGNORE_DHCP opti