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Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master
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<span>by Eric S. Raymond</span>
<i>at 2018-10-18T02:49:13Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Clarify the Mode 6 paayload limit.
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC96" class="line" lang="plaintext">All multibyte numeric fields are interpreted as big-endian</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC97" class="line" lang="plaintext">2s-complement integers.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC99" class="line" lang="plaintext">The maximum length of the Mode 6 payload is constrained by the</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC100" class="line" lang="plaintext">minimum-maximum USP payload size of 576. As of late 2018 there is no</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC101" class="line" lang="plaintext">language in the NTP RFCs pinning it down. A draft RFC on Mode 6 says</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC102" class="line" lang="plaintext">it's 500 octets, which is far in excess of any plausible request or</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC105" class="line" lang="plaintext">[[varlists]]</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC106" class="line" lang="plaintext">== Variable-Value Lists ==</span>
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