On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 02:30:19PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> The problem is that if the clock is wrong, the server's certificate
> and/or OCSP stapling can't be validated (it either appears to have
> expired, or not be valid yet), so ntpd is unable to connect using https
> to check the time.
> 
> Personally I am no fan of "constraints", I use local NTP servers and
> trust the relevant parts of the network more than the RTC and batteries
> on my machines, and don't really like sending potentially
> fingerprintable external packets showing that a machine has rebooted,
> so I usually disable it. Obviously opinions differ on this :-)

That makes sense. I very much agree. Disabling constraints now. Thank
you.

Bryan

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