The state of NTPsec as I see it

[Mark Atwood]

There is still the threaded DNS lookup bug that Hal discovered, and his
proposed new threaded DNS design.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:11 PM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> > > 3. The JSON refclock is a mess that has never worked quite right,
> > > without a clear purpose in life. I'd prefer to drop it, unless
> > > somebody steps up to fix it.
> >
> > I could be wildly wrong, but I think that some systems like
> > MacOS do not support shared memory, required for SHM().  The
> > JSON driver is way to get PPS+gpsd+ntpd running on MacOS.  And
> > other OS that also fail to have /dev/shm.
> >
> > If I were to fix it, I would rip out almost all the options and
> > drop it back to basics.  Then get it working on MacOS at a minimum.
> >
> > If that works for you, it should probably get a new name and driver
> > number to avoid confustion.
>
> There aren't any driver numbers any more.  OK, I fib slightly; there's
> a table deep in the guts of ntpd that gets indexed by the driver number
> when you use the old refclock syntax.  This is for backwards
> compatibiility,
> otherwise they're gone.
>
> OK, strip it and fix it.  We'll worry about the namespace issue once
> we know what you had to throw overboard.
> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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