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

Beat Bolli bbolli at ewanet.ch
Wed Jan 13 13:14:42 UTC 2010


Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.4p8+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

> I suppose I could take ntp-servers out of the request list in
> dhclient.conf...

This is possible, but the DHCP server might still be configured to
always send the NTP servers (as happens with my ISP).

The other way to achieve what the original poster wants is to supersede the
NTP servers list in dhclient.conf, but this is kludgey in the extreme...

+1 for the patch.


Regards,

Beat Bolli





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