Re: [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: Public NTP servers already responds to NTPv5

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Wed, 02 December 2020 08:43 UTC

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From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
To: Danny Mayer <mayer@ntp.org>
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: Public NTP servers already responds to NTPv5
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On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 07:06:47PM -0500, Danny Mayer wrote:
> It's essential that any NTPv5 document deal with interoperability with NTPv4
> clients and servers. NTPv5 will fail without it.

The only suggestion I have for that currently is do with TLS 1.3
did and have an extension with the version number in it, and still
have version 4 in the header.


Kurt