[gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> Yo Eric!
> 
> On Thu, 5 May 2016 15:45:09 -0400
> "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Frank <frank at nicholasfamilycentral.com>:
> > > dhcpcd will “merge” DHCP supplied NTP servers at the bottom of a
> > > ntp.conf.  This has not caused me any issues (on Gentoo).  NTP
> > > generally does the “right” things and uses all the NTP servers in
> > > the config & will decide the local server, with PPS is the best.  
> >  
> > I'm not sure I understand this comment. Are you saying that a dhcpd
> > hpook modifies /etc/ntp.conf?
> 
> Yes, a dhcpcd hook modifies /etc/ntp.conf by default.  If you dhcp server
> is sending the IPs for NTP servers, they get inserted in the file.
> 
> It appends this at the bottom:
> 
> # Generated by dhcpcd from lxcbr0.dhcp
> server 204.17.205.8
> server 204.17.205.1
> server 204.17.205.7
> # End of dhcpcd from lxcbr0.dhcp

Bletch.  That is totally inappropriate for a Stratum 1,
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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