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Re: quietly....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Feb 2 10:59:15 2011

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:58:22 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5CF16AD6-DDCC-4A72-AD30-9DFC653A0B6D@muada.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 2/2/11 7:23 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 2 feb 2011, at 16:00, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 
>> SLAAC fails because you can't get information about DNS, NTP, or anything other than a list of prefixes and a router that MIGHT actually be able to default-route your packets.
> 
> Who ever puts NTP addresses in DHCP? That doesn't make any sense. I'd rather use a known NTP server that keeps correct time.
> 

Me, because I have better things to do than to manually enter NTP
servers (and other various boot settings) into all of my IP phones by
hand. Configure DHCP, plug them in, and it just works.

~Seth


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