NTS update

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Mar 1 11:29:13 UTC 2019


Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> It now talks to Martin Langer's server.
> 
> I added another hack to ntpq.  (The hack is actually in ntpd, but you see in 
> in ntpq -p)  Where it used to show INIT in the refid column to indicate that 
> it hasn't received any packets yet, it will now show NTS or DNS if it is 
> waiting for NTS/DNS lookup.  For NTS, if there is a digit in the t column, 
> that means it got past the NTS-KE handshake.  If the packet processing isn't 
> working, you can watch the cookie count down.

So this means ntpd is shipping these strings in the refid field?

I want to document this. Not sure where it goes.
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