[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#370332: Make some conffiles automatically configurable

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:27:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Peter Eisentraut]
> > Would it help you if the NTP server package accepted NTP server
> > information from the DHCP server (#268328)?  It seems that
> > Skolelinux-type networks use a DHCP server anyway, so you could
> > point to your local time source there.
> 
> Yes, at least for the time clients it would be great.  Now we use DNS
> to point the clients to the server, but it would be better if DHCP or
> some service location protocol was used instead.
> 
> For the clock server on the local network, DHCP will not make much
> difference, as it by default is the DHCP too, so it can not ask itself
> to get the IP info.

If you're using dhcp3 and configure it to tell add a hook for ntp, this
should work.  See /usr/share/doc/ntp/README.Debian.gz


Kurt