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

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Mon, 30 November 2020 11:52 UTC

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From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
To: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Public NTP servers already responds to NTPv5
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 12:42:27PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> There is no point in trying to make v5 compatible with v4 and
> postponing incompatible changes to v6.

Then I suggest that the client and server packet should not be the
same format, and that there is no reason for the client to send
all those fields with 0 filled in.

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