Does broadcast *server* mode still exist?

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Aug 18 22:37:58 UTC 2019


esr at thyrsus.com said:
> Go ahead.  Whatever broadcast code was left is pretty much a vermiform
> appendix, anyway. 

The only leftovers that I know about are packet types.  They may be used by 
ntpq.

I remember a comment about there being no way to do broadcast securely.  It 
would be good to include an expanded version of that in the documentation.


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