<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 7:35 PM Eric S. Raymond <<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">esr@thyrsus.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Sanjeev Gupta via devel <<a href="mailto:devel@ntpsec.org" target="_blank">devel@ntpsec.org</a>>:<br>
> I have a feeling that was also removed, at some time. Has it?<br>
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I do not recall that we explicitly removed it. But I wouldn't count on<br>
it to work without testing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div></div><div> </div><div>The "Broadcast" item in ntpd/ntp_parser.yy was removed in 3703251c18d4dfd4c1b5c334875d4f7392d4789a</div><div><br></div><div>Placing a "broadcast" line, as described in NTP Classic, generates an error:</div><div><br></div><div>2019-08-18T21:07:20 ntpd[12697]: CONFIG: readconfig: parsing file: /etc/ntp.conf<br>2019-08-18T21:07:20 ntpd[12697]: CONFIG: line 57 column 0 syntax error, unexpected T_String, expecting $end<br>2019-08-18T21:07:20 ntpd[12697]: CONFIG: syntax error in /etc/ntp.conf line 57, column 0<br></div><div><br></div><div>====</div><div><br></div><div>The documentation is inconsistent. There is some mention of broadcast and multicast, but the description of how to turn it on has been removed (which is why I had to consult NTP Classic documentation).</div><div><br></div><div>Since the code, as of now, has no way to turn on broadcast _server_,and we have documented removal or broadcast _client_ , can I assume this is final? If yes, I will go through the docs, tidying them up.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>