[CLUE-Tech] NTP Questions

[Jeremy Huber]

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My experiences only: may or may not be true to code

a) You shouldn't have to worry about the keys being easily hacked as
long as you the authentication (keys) turned off.  There's really no
reason to have a remote machine fiddling with the time of a server
anyway.

b) From what I've seen, if NTPd is way off (more than an hour), or if
there's no connection, it'll just die quietly/not bother to change
the time.  I've never tested to see what happens if it has a
connection, then loses it.

Jeremy

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From: "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] NTP Questions


> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:46:16 -0700
> "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> 
> > Howdy, folks.
> > 
> > Well, I've been reading the ntp docs, and I'm finding them
> > somewhat vague.
> > So here's a dumb question.
> 
> A followup question. The docs seem to imply that ntp will keep an
> eye on the clock, even when ntp servers aren't available, and tweak
> as necessary, or am I misreading that?
> 
> Depending upon the above, maybe I should start the ntp daemon in my
> ppp/ip-up.local and stop it in my ppp/ip-down.local scripts? Or is
> there just no reason to be that strange?

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