First NTS code

James Browning jamesb.fe80 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 17:00:03 UTC 2019


On 1/27/19, Eric S. Raymond via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> I expect this module to be used by ntpd and a small ntske server
> daemon. Because I don't believe incremental code is coing to be an
> issue in any of our deployments, I've chosen an organization that
> minimizes the exposed API and keeps both client and server NTS code in
> one file for maintainability, rather than one that tries to partition
> it so that neither deployment sees code unique to the other.
>
> Ueful comments will be those pointing out if this interface fails to
> capture any transaction steps described in the RFC, or that the
> implied data flow to/from the rest of ntpd needs to change.  It's not
> time to argue about policy or implementation details in the code just
> yet; for now that conversation should continue as edits to nts.adoc.
>
> While the rest of you look at this and respond, I will be doing
> the necessary changes to the configuration parser so it can supply the
> parameters needed by the module.
> --
> 		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

Deliberate? misspacing in ntpd/wscript (tab), some typos in ntpd/nts.c
and no apparent handling of startup and shutdown events. It looks good
to me. Oh, useful I am not so good at that.


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