[CLUE-Tech] NTP Questions

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:35:26 -0700
"Jeremy Huber" <jhuber at fallenknight.org> wrote:

> 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.

Well, I wouldn't put anything past script kiddies.

> 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.

Apparently, the daemon still runs, but it gives up on connecting to any of
the servers, and doesn't re-connect when the network is back up.

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