NTP through DNS?

Chris Thompson cet1 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Sep 26 16:59:48 UTC 2018


On Sep 24 2018, Danny Mayer wrote:
[...]
>This is very simple to do. It does not require SRV records to implement.
>Note that I am only answering for the ntp reference implementation.
>
>In your domain file add entries like this:
>
>locationntp	CNAME ntp1.yourdomain
>		CNAME ntp2.yourdomain
>		CNAME externalntp.otherdomain
>		CNAME externalntp.someotherdomain

Assuming that you are running name server software that actually allows
you to have several CNAMEs with the same label, of course.

BIND8 with "multiple-cnames yes", perhaps? :-)

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Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk


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