Where is that documented? Context is I'm working on documentation. Often, I'm removing stuff that is no longer relevant. Sometimes that requires checking the code. Some of the code needs cleaning up too. I think - maybe I just don't understand it yet.
We treat peer in ntp.conf as an alias for server. So we don't send MODE_ACTIVE. It looks like we respond to MODE_ACTIVE with MODE_PASSIVE. It looks like we can send MODE_BROADCAST. I assume that's for compatibility. Has anybody tried it? (That will require an old server, but we probably want one for testing anyway.) I assume we ignore received MODE_BROADCAST packets, but I haven't confirmed that by reading the code. The question that got me here is the nopeer restrict option. Do we need it any more? I think we no longer setup any unsolicited peers. The pool code used to do that, but not any more. I think the peer command on another server used to do that, but I'm pretty sure we don't do that any more. Related, there is a table or two that used to be needed to handle received packets. I think we can simplify things by bypassing them, but that depends on understanding what packets we allow. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
