NTS client configuration support has landed

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Fri,  1 Feb 2019 10:19:53 -0500 (EST)
"Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> I have enhanced the configuration parser to process NTS client-side
> configuration options.  The configuration state is available to the
> nts.c hooks as members of a structure passed to them, along with the
> dynamic NTS state (stored cookies) and the parsed content of the
> current packet.

What structure name?

> 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.

Uh, no.  'server' OR 'nts'.  Never both.

> This was suboptimal design, inviting subtle configuration bugs due to
> typos.

Or rather, suboptimal reading.  Combining them was discarded by every
one days ago.  Too many options conflict in non-obvious ways.

> Accordingly, the nts configuration stuff is implemented in a way that
> conforms to good DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) architectural practice.
> That is, as options to the "server" declaration.

I can't find this in nts.adoc...  Where?

RGDS
GARY
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