Going forward with NTS

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> >> That program would probably be handy for debugging so maybe we should write
> >> it anyway.
> 
> > This sounds like you volunteering to write and test the code. 
> 
> I added some ugly code to my hack client to generate a canned request, and 
> similar hackery in the server to print it out and echo it back, then added the 
> printout code to the client.
> 
> Then I pointed it at Martin's server.  That found a bug that would have taken 
> me a long time to track down.  The KE records aren't padded to word 
> boundaries.  After I deleted a few lines, it looks good.
> 
> We should definitely clean this up (aka total rewrite) when we get to the 
> polish stage.

We will.  I've been assuming that once we get KE working between ntpd
instances, and set up a smoke test, I will go in and
rewrite/refactor/strip.
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