Re: [Ntp] I-D Action: draft-ietf-ntp-using-nts-for-ntp-27.txt

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Thu, 26 March 2020 14:19 UTC

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mlichvar@redhat.com said:
>> Ok - in this case too, there should be 8 NTP requests before it contacts
>> the KE server again, and it will increase the retry interval each time
>> since it has not completed a full cycle of getting cookies and succeeded
>> in using them.
> You are right. Good point. Maybe a bug or incompatibility between different
> implementations would be a better example. 

That doesn't help much.  If some idiot sets minpoll to 4 you only get 40 
seconds between NTS-KE retries.

Bugs, firewalls, rate limiting, ...




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