Re: [Ntp] Internal server error code in NTS-KE

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Fri, 06 December 2019 02:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Internal server error code in NTS-KE
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watson=40cloudflare.com@dmarc.ietf.org said:
> I've just realized I'd like to send an error record in NTS-KE for a temporary
> inability of the server to answer a request. There is no error code allocated
> for this yet, so I'm going with 0xff, 0xff. On that note should we have an
> experimental range for these codepoints? 

Can you easily setup a server that returns an error so that we can test client 
code?

If so, something other than 0xff, 0xff would help test byte swapping.

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What sort of retry time is reasonable?


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