[ntp:questions] Autokey users - please read

Dave Hart davehart at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 03:12:53 UTC 2009


On Sep 10, 12:23 am, Harlan Stenn <st... at ntp.org> wrote:
> https://support.ntp.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1243talks about a bug that
> affects autokey users.
>
> We have a fix ready to go.
>
> There are 2 ways to go, however.
>
> One way is to just fix the problem, which will mean an "old" version of
> ntpd will not authenticate with a "new" version of ntpd.
>
> The other way is to provide a backward-compatibility mode, and there
> would be a switch in the config file that would say whether or not the
> backward-compatible mechanism should be enabled or not.

This has been resolved in 4.2.5p212.  By default, that version and
later will not interoperate with earlier ntpd's Autokey.  ./configure
--disable-bug1243-fix can be used before make to build a newer ntpd
that has the older Autokey session key behavior and so will
interoperate with pre-p212 Autokey, but not with default-configured
newer ntpd Autokey.

Cheers,
Dave Hart




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