Gary E. Miller <g...@rellim.com>: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:19:28 -0400 > "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > > > So, the question for our domain experts is, are there any serious use > > cases for broadcast modes? They cost a lot in configuration and > > code complexity; it would be nice to just drop them. How much > > screaming might that cause from actual users? > > I don't care if there is a valid 'serious' use case or not. When > someone tries to sell his boss on moving from NTP Classic to NTPsec > he does not want to have to do a large use case analysis. There > is a strong case for 'drop-in replacement' possible. Like the > 'notrap' option.
But we have one mission imperative that trumps drop-in replacement:
security. And what makes these modes targets for removal is that,
according to Daniel, there are fundamentally impossible to secure.
I did in fact restore a dummy 'notrap' keyword so old configs
won't break. But that's because it had no security implications.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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