[ntp:hackers] unconfigure

tglassey tglassey at glassey.com
Mon Jun 15 16:27:27 UTC 2009


Danny Mayer wrote:
> Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote:
>   
>> David Mills wrote:
>>     
>>> Danny,
>>>
>>> The original plan when the new configuration code was built was to use 
>>> an initeger (association ID) or IP address or DNS name if it exists. 
>>>       
>> We should add a Mac Address as well and possibly a BERT token to 
>> represent the end node since these would also help to enable NAT 
>> functionality, something that NTP currently chokes on.
>>     
>
> No. Those are not items that exist in the protocol packet so they cannot
> be used for anything. To do that would require a protocol change.
>   
That's the point Danny - to put into NTP the facilities to allow it to 
work through NAT and extend the functionality of the core time 
management tool. That means allowing more than IP addresses to be used 
to identify endpoints.

Todd
> Danny
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