ntp.conf changes for NTS

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Feb 1 19:11:14 UTC 2019


Gary said:
> But then how do I say I want 2 from this pool and 2 from that pool?

With the current code, you can't.

I don't think we should tangle that discussion with NTS.


>> If you need more, it does another DNS lookup.
> And, of course, that DNS thing is problematic with NTS... 

I think there is a reasonable parallel between get another server via DNS and 
get another server via NTS-KE.

There are (at least) two ways to interpret:
  pool pool.example.com nts

1) It could do a NTS-KE connection to pool.example.com and get back several IP 
Addresses and associated cookies.  The protocol doesn't support that yet, but 
seems reasonable to extend.

2) It could do a DNS lookup on pool.example.com, get back several IP 
addresses, then do a NTS-KE dance with each address.



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