broadcastclient ?

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Dec 8 08:26:37 UTC 2016


Per Jessen <per at computer.org>:
> I have built 0.9.5-1 - first default, later with classic mode enabled. 
> When I try to start ntpd, both builds complain about my config:
> 
> test422 ntpd[17425]: line 98 column 0 syntax error, unexpected T_String, expecting $end
> test422 ntpd[17425]: syntax error in /etc/ntp.conf line 98, column 0
> 
> 
> This stems from this config (line98 is 'broadcastclient'):
> 
> driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift
> logfile /var/log/ntp
> keys /etc/ntp.keys
> trustedkey 1
> requestkey 1
> controlkey 1
> restrict -4  default notrap nomodify nopeer noquery
> restrict -6  default notrap nomodify nopeer noquery
> restrict 127.0.0.1
> restrict ::1
> broadcastclient
> disable auth

That is correct.  Broadcast client mode has been removed because it is
impossible to secure.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>


More information about the users mailing list