[ntp:questions] Re: NTP seems unsuitable for this application... what do you think?

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Fri Dec 3 00:37:52 UTC 2004


Frederick Bruckman wrote:

>In article <N0rrd.7$%55.0 at dfw-service2.ext.ray.com>,
>	John Seal <sealj at indy.raytheon.com> writes:
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>>There is another special GPS host, but its local clock is not normally 
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><big snip>
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>>- Why didn't it seem to make any difference whether the clients used 
>>authentication keys or not?
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>What difference would you expect it to make? The "ntpd" that ships with
>your OS probably doesn't support authentication anyway. (Authentication
>is new to NTP 4.2.0, IIRC.)
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NTP 4.2 may be the first to support "autokey" encryption but versions as 
early as 3.95e supported MD5 and DES.



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