Re: [chrony-users] Simple DHCP support

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, lets look at, for example
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/dhcp/dhcp-top

Note that there is no mention of NTP  or time server in that document at all




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On Fri, 9 Aug 2024, Rob Janssen wrote:

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>
> Oh come on...
> When you do not know what to use DHCP for, you might as well not reply.
>
> DHCP does not only provide an IP address.  It provides lots of other info, and
> some of it can be the address of an NTP server.  Like it gives you a default
> gateway, one or more DNS servers, etc etc etc.
>
> Rob
>
> On 2024-08-09 20:33, Bill Unruh wrote:
> > Again it is not clear what you want. Why would you want to find NTP servers
> > via dhcp? dhcp is for giving your system an IP address. chrony or ntp are for
> > giving your system the UTC time.
>
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