Does broadcast *server* mode still exist?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0 at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 7:35 PM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sanjeev Gupta via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > > I have a feeling that was also removed, at some time.  Has it?
> >
> > I do not recall that we explicitly removed it. But I wouldn't count on
> > it to work without testing.
> >
> 
> 
> The "Broadcast" item in ntpd/ntp_parser.yy was removed in
> 3703251c18d4dfd4c1b5c334875d4f7392d4789a
> 
> Placing a "broadcast" line, as described in NTP Classic, generates an error:
> 
> 2019-08-18T21:07:20 ntpd[12697]: CONFIG: readconfig: parsing file:
> /etc/ntp.conf
> 2019-08-18T21:07:20 ntpd[12697]: CONFIG: line 57 column 0 syntax error,
> unexpected T_String, expecting $end
> 2019-08-18T21:07:20 ntpd[12697]: CONFIG: syntax error in /etc/ntp.conf line
> 57, column 0
> 
> ====
> 
> The documentation is inconsistent.  There is some mention of broadcast and
> multicast, but the description of how to turn it on has been removed (which
> is why I had to consult NTP Classic documentation).
> 
> Since the code, as of now, has no way to turn on broadcast _server_,and we
> have documented removal or broadcast _client_ , can I assume this is
> final?  If yes, I will go through the docs, tidying them up.

Go ahead.  Whatever broadcast code was left is pretty much a vermiform
appendix, anyway.
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