Does broadcast *server* mode still exist?
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Aug 19 03:36:05 UTC 2019
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
>
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > That's covered. In the page on NTPsec changes:
> > * Broadcast- and multicast modes, which are impossible to
> > secure, have been removed.
>
> I was looking for more information. Why can't we secure it?
Daniel explained it to me once, but I've forgotten the details.
Perhaps he'll speak up.
> I'm not sad to see broadcast modes gone. It was tangled up with a state machine which I never really understood.
And may no longer exist since Daniel's massive refactor of the protcol engine!
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