[ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

[David Woolley]

Hal Murray wrote:

> 20 ms sounds like a typical DSL link.  That 1ms accuracy goes out
> the window if you are doing a big download.  (At least on my DSL
> link.)
> 

People don't generally do big downloads during the boot of a machine! 
On a big network, the most likely reason for rebooting a timeserver in 
prime time is a power failure.  In which case the whole network is 
likely to be down.

At worst, using ntpdate -b, you only get something like the current ntpd 
behavour.  Typically you end up within a millisecond.