[ntp:bugs] [Bug 1057] ntpdc unconfig failure

[David L.Mills via the NTP Bugzilla]

http://bugs.ntp.org/1057



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Additional Comments From mills at udel.edu (David L. Mills)
Submitted on 2009-04-09 03:16

Subject: ntpdc unconfig failure

Steve,

I've said this before. The method originally used by ntpdc to demobilize 
associations is incompatible with the concept of ephemeral assocations 
used by the manycast and pool autoconfigure schemes. It also never 
worked properly in case of potentially duplicate associations and could 
cause a crash with autokey assocations by not properly returning all 
dynamically acquired data. It's actually quite easy to do this properly 
as is done now in several occasions where an association times out or 
finds an unrecoverable error by simply callling peer_clear(), which does 
all the hard work.

The plan for the syntactic/semantic remodel of the configuration 
commands did result that almost any command, including association 
mobilization commands can be done via ntpq. This extends to other 
assciation commands that are now in the command repetoire; howver, 
nobody yet has updated the syntax and trivial semantics to implement a 
demobilize command. That may be a project for some ambitious weekend 
warrior in fututre.

Dave

Steve Kostecke via the NTP Bugzilla wrote:

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David L. Mills <mills at udel.edu>



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