[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#683061: Bug#683061: Bug#683061: bug report #683061

[Thomas Hood]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:

> Do you expect the DHCP server on the LAN then to set that ntp
> server?  Currently this would now result in ntpd getting restarted
> by dhcp and should get you a working ntp server.
>


I think it is a good idea to furnish time server addresses over DHCP in the
same manner as name server addresses.

How widespread that practice is, I have to admit I don't know.

I notice, however, that NetworkManager doesn't support obtaining time
server addresses over DHCP.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627343
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/267891



> But do you want it to log this every second?  Or do you have some
> trigger for when it should log this again? (For instance on
> interface/ip change.)
>


Perhaps a failed lookup should be logged once and then not logged again
until after at least one successful lookup of that name?

Perhaps also the retry interval for a given name should increase gradually
from 1 second to, say, 15 minutes?
-- 
Thomas
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