REFCLOCK rises again

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Richard!

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 12:46:29 -0600
Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> On 3/5/19 12:45 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> > Yo Eric!
> > 
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 02:11:52 -0500
> > "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> >   
> >>> That would leave the configure option.  I've never used it.    
> >>
> >> I think we can justify both removals on security. If Mode 6 is a
> >> read-only channel there can never be any exploits over it.  That's
> >> a significant gain in provable bulletproofness.
> >>
> >> You want to reconfure your ntpd?  Bounce it. This won't happen
> >> often.  
> > 
> > Ugh, wrong.  I've got to agree with Achim here.  It takes days for
> > my ntpd's to converge, that is why you don't bounce it often.  
> 
> How often are you reconfiguring your running ntpd today,

Of the more than dozen ntpd I run, often one, maybe all, are reconfigured
every day.  I can do this as I have enough other untouched ntpd to
keep a stable reference.

> and by what
> mechanism (i.e. are you using the Mode 6 writable parameter(s) being
> proposed for removal)?

I do it with: killall ntpd

But I would like something like SIGHUP to get ntpd to re-read the config
file and yet keep state.

RGDS
GARY
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