[ntp:hackers] unprivileged ntpd prototype

Terje Mathisen terje at tmsw.no
Tue Nov 3 14:04:28 UTC 2009


Brian Utterback wrote:
> Now, I can't say that they should not, but I can say that it violates
> the RFC and that it is a feature that has been discussed and rejected
> many times before.
>
> So, we have three choices:
>
> 1. Reject the alternate port feature out of hand.
> 2. Force the synth-clock when an alternate port is in use, making the
> alternate port useless in deployment.
> 3. Re-visit the prohibition against using alternate ports.

My vote is on (3):

NTP might be the only protocol which cannot run over a non-standard 
port, I really don't see how having this ability will hurt us.

Terje

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