Bug 131042

Summary:	NTP enhancement
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Jonathon Robison <jrobiso2>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Lukas Ocilka <locilka>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Jonathon Robison 2005-10-27 15:40:12 UTC

For situations where the dhcp server does not provide ntp information, but the default gateway does do ntp, perhaps we should add an option to YaST-ntp such as a checkbox which says "use default route as ntp server".

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-10-28 13:42:23 UTC

I think this would be confusing that way... but the maintainer should decide here.

Comment 2 Lukas Ocilka 2005-10-31 08:59:47 UTC

I'm afraid that if I added a checkbox:
[x] Use Default Gateway as the NTP Server

Other users could want:
[x] Use Primary DNS Server as the NTP Server
[x] Use Secondary DNS Server as the NTP Server

That's why there is the [Lookup] button when selecting the NTP server.

I'll keep this enhancement open for 10.1 and my idea is to pre-select the default-route server as the [default] one from all servers found if the IP matches the default route. The second default could be the primary DNS Server, the third one the secondary DNS Server.

Comment 3 Lukas Ocilka 2006-01-09 09:18:40 UTC

I'm sorry but this cannot be done in YaST NTP Client. Author of the YaST Network whose libraries I would have to use did not recommend me to do it. By his opinion admins should fix it by using right DHCP values.