[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#489376: Bug#489376: ntp: Please provide support for NTP server discovery using RFC 2782

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:51:27PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> Package: ntp
> Version: 4.2.2.p4+dfsg-2
> Severity: wishlist
> User: debian-edu at lists.debian.org
> Usertag: debian-edu
> 
> One issue with large scale deployment of Linux is the need to
> configure each client.  It would be easier if the clients were able to
> automatically derive their configuration using network services.  This
> is successfully done with MS Active directory, where it uses DNS to
> locate the LDAP servers, and then uses the LDAP rootDSE to figure out
> the LDAP base.  The DNS feature is using the mechanism described in
> RFC 2782 to find servies.

Why aren't you using DHCP for this?  You seemed to be happy with dhcp
before (http://bugs.debian.org/370332#36)

It looks to me that there are just too many ways to configure an (ntp)
server.  It would be better if there was some central way we have to
configure all this, and dhcp seems to be doing most of this.

I would like that you people make up your mind about what exactly you
want.

ntpd has support for avahi I think, but we made sure it was disabled.  I
can't remember why though, and I have no idea if that works or not.


Kurt