[ntp:hackers] configuration file rewrite

Hal Murray hmurray at suespammers.org
Sun Feb 26 23:17:36 UTC 2006


> Some sort of facility for reconfiguring on the fly is  desirable. We
> operate a nation-wide network of NTP servers that are closed access.
> To add new users, we have an automated process that sends out new user
> details, and via ntpdc on the remote NTP server, authorizes new users.
> Having to kill ntpd to reread ntp.conf and suffer a timequake is ugly,
> so a facility for re-reading ntp.conf on the fly would be nice. 

Could you do that sort of access control with a firewall?

I think it should work with either an external box or packet filtering 
software on the box running NTP.


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