Harlan, This is even more bogus. True, current ntpdate does send multiple packets, not to different servers, but the same server. The program attempts to mitigate the multiple replies in some sense to "improve" the accuracy. Presumably, some j-random algorithm is used to do this, but not the one used in the specification and reference implementation. I'm not going to argue with that other than to point out ntpd operated in ntpdate mode already has the crafted algorithms and worthy defenses against bogus attacks.
Dave Harlan Stenn wrote: > Dave, > > >>>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > mills> Harlan, SNTP doesn't do anything of the kind. It assumes only a > mills> single packet exchange resulting in four timestamps to determine the > mills> time and optional offset and roundtrip delay. > > I was talking about the case where SNTP is contacting several hosts. > > In that case it will send a bunch of packets (one to each host). > > Sorry I wasn't more clear. > > H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
