NTS client configuration support has landed

[Richard Laager]

On 2/1/19 11:34 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
>> On 2/1/19 9:19 AM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
>>> Having a separate nts config statement would have required admins to
>>> enter the name of a server to which secure connection is intended
>>> twice, once in the server declaration and once in the nts declaration.
>>> This was suboptimal design, inviting subtle configuration bugs due to
>>> typos.
>>
>> I don't know what was in nts.adoc, but the proposal on the list was
>> certainly that NTS associations used _only_ nts, not server + nts.
> 
> Yes.  Gary journaled that to nts.adoc.
> 
> If there's a good semantic reason to have a separate nts statement, I
> can do that. But I don't presently know of one.  A request for secure time
> service has to reference an NTP server, yes?

I wasn't personally arguing for a separate nts, so I'm not the one to
make that case. I had originally proposed using server. I was just
clarifying that it was not supposed to be server + nts.

-- 
Richard