[ntp:hackers] Authentication changes
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Wed Apr 6 03:37:12 PDT 2005
At 10:21 PM -0700 2005-04-05, John Pettitt wrote:
> Rather than changing the meaning of the bits again why not deprecate
> the keywords (abort with an error on their use) and define some new
> keywords - that way nobody gets an unexpected surprise when their
> effective config changes silently when they upgrade.
I think that's a very good idea. We've been tripping over this
pretty much constantly for a long time now, and it has soaked up a
lot of support effort on the mailing lists, newsgroup, and IRC
channel #ntp, and yet we keep re-hashing the same old problem each
and every time.
I can't remember the last time I was trying to help debug an NTP
problem that someone was having that *wasn't* related to the change
in meaning of "notrust".
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