[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#454059: closed by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx.net> (Re: Bug#454059: no way to statically over-ride ntp server list if provided by dhcp)

[Rick Thomas]

Question bottom posted.

On Dec 3, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the ntp package:
>
> #454059: no way to statically over-ride ntp server list if provided  
> by dhcp
>
> It has been closed by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx.net>.
>
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> From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx.net>
> Date: December 3, 2007 7:20:02 AM EST
> To: 454059-done at bugs.debian.org
> 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