ntp config tech note

Thu May 20 21:16:59 UTC 2004

On Thu May 20, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> It's not clear to me why Randy considered this newsworthy enough to
> post to NANOG, nor why he feels the need to "write it up" rather than
> just sending his internal customer an excerpt of the man page, where
> this behavior is clearly documented (and has been since at least xntp3
> circa 1997).  Is it possible he's decided to compete with the guys who
> discovered last week that CSMA networks are vulnerable to jabber?

Or, maybe, as he alluded to in his email, he's just trying to get us to
talk about something other than spam ;-)

Simon
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