Re: [TICTOC] (no subject)

Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com> Mon, 26 September 2016 20:11 UTC

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To: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>, tictoc@ietf.org
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On 26/09/2016 20:28, Hal Murray wrote:
>>> "Each NTP clock has a set of N IP addresses. The assumption is that
>>>         the server information, including its multiple IP addresses is
>>>         known to the NTP clients." >
>> The base NTP protocol gets the time server addresses by configuration,  and
>> thus the assumption seems reasonable.
> The configuration info on a client is unlikely to know about multiple IP
> Addresses on the servers it is using.
>

True for the existing configs, but the authors are clearly assuming a 
modified configuration.

Stewart