<div dir="ltr">I think all modern Windows machines get their address from their domain controller, or from ntp?.<a href="http://microsoft.com">microsoft.com</a><div><br></div><div>If its a snarl, Im tending towards removing it, and documenting it's absence.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:16 PM Eric S. Raymond via devel <<a href="mailto:devel@ntpsec.org">devel@ntpsec.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mark! Heads up...exernal/marketing issue incoming.<br>
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Hal Murray via devel <<a href="mailto:devel@ntpsec.org" target="_blank">devel@ntpsec.org</a>>:<br>
> Is anybody using/testing it?<br>
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Not as far as I know<br>
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> We don't support receiving broadcast.<br>
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No, I removed that after Daniel explained that it's unsecurable.<br>
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> It used to support a ttl option. That got broken/dropped somewhere<br>
> along the way. Should I restore that? Or maybe document that it is<br>
> missing? ...<br>
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I believe I already performed that documentationectomy. If there are<br>
remnants, of course we need to fix them in one direction or the other<br>
depending about the high-level decision aout supporting brodast mode.<br>
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> Context is that I'm cleaning up the mode/ttl mess. The mode for<br>
> refclocks used to live in the ttl slot. Since the ttl slot isn't<br>
> used any more, I'm fixing up all the names.<br>
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Good plan.<br>
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About the major issue:<br>
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I believe we retained bradcast mode thinking of a scenario where a bunch<br>
of Windows machines on a lan are being fed time information from NTPsec.<br>
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You're our NTP operations old hand. Do you think this is common?<br>
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The big question is whetger this is an important scenario for us to cover.<br>
In view of who we have an eye on as a target market, I'm inclined to<br>
doubt it...but this kind of thing in Mark's bailiwick.<br>
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I of course, would be happy to remove it to reduce complexity and<br>
testing scenarios.<br>
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</blockquote></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Mark Atwood<br>
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