I think all modern Windows machines get their address from their domain controller, or from ntp?.microsoft.com
If its a snarl, Im tending towards removing it, and documenting it's absence. On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:16 PM Eric S. Raymond via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote: > Mark! Heads up...exernal/marketing issue incoming. > > Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>: > > Is anybody using/testing it? > > Not as far as I know > > > We don't support receiving broadcast. > > No, I removed that after Daniel explained that it's unsecurable. > > > It used to support a ttl option. That got broken/dropped somewhere > > along the way. Should I restore that? Or maybe document that it is > > missing? ... > > I believe I already performed that documentationectomy. If there are > remnants, of course we need to fix them in one direction or the other > depending about the high-level decision aout supporting brodast mode. > > > Context is that I'm cleaning up the mode/ttl mess. The mode for > > refclocks used to live in the ttl slot. Since the ttl slot isn't > > used any more, I'm fixing up all the names. > > Good plan. > > About the major issue: > > I believe we retained bradcast mode thinking of a scenario where a bunch > of Windows machines on a lan are being fed time information from NTPsec. > > You're our NTP operations old hand. Do you think this is common? > > The big question is whetger this is an important scenario for us to cover. > In view of who we have an eye on as a target market, I'm inclined to > doubt it...but this kind of thing in Mark's bailiwick. > > I of course, would be happy to remove it to reduce complexity and > testing scenarios. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> > > My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: > https://icei.org > Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be > your own. > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@ntpsec.org > http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Mark Atwood http://about.me/markatwood +1-206-604-2198
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