All hands alert - NTPsec gets bad responses from Amazon NTP servers

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 02:43:04PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> All hands alert.  We have our first, or maybe second depending on how
> you count, serious bug. About 33% of the time, NTPsec is eliciting bad
> packets from Amazon time service. Classic does not have this problem.

I would argue that no matter what the client sends, the server
should send back a correct packet, and it more seems to be a
problem with the Amazon time service.


Kurt