In message <530b666a.1000...@rewt.org.uk>, Joe Holden writes: >> Please check how NTP is authenticated before giving bad advice, >> it's all in the RFC. >> >v3 or v4? It is an optional part of the spec in both cases and again >isn't required for 99% of people using ntpd as a client, which was the >entire point of this exercise in the first place.
Authentication of NTP is rapidly gaining focus these days, for obvious reasons, so I think adopting software now which don't support it would be needlessly shortsighted. 3 years ago I would have agree with you, but not now. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
