ntp.conf changes for NTS

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Jan 29 11:17:10 UTC 2019


Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> 
> How should we tell the system we want to use NTS when talking to a server?
> 
> The catch is that we potentially need two names/addresses.
> 
> I think the simple case is just:
>   server ntp.example.com nts
> That will do a NTS-KE exchange with the system at ntp.example.com and use the 
> IP Address it returns.
> 
> The complicated case is when we want to specify the IP Address.  How about:
>   server ntp.example.com nts 1.2.3.4
> or
>   server ntp.example.com nts bob.example.com

Works.  Put it in nts.adoc?  I will be writing the config interpretation soon.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org
Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be your own.




More information about the devel mailing list