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[TICTOC] Antw: [ntpwg] operational experience with NTP symmetric mode

"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> Mon, 09 May 2016 06:44 UTC

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Subject: [TICTOC] Antw: [ntpwg] operational experience with NTP symmetric mode
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>>> Sharon Goldberg <goldbe@cs.bu.edu> schrieb am 05.05.2016 um 18:30 in Nachricht
<CAJHGrrQvSkdEdurig6XTWJi5DpGDitcfZeoLK3jj=qkJiiVV4w@mail.gmail.com>:
> Dear WG,
> 
> As part of the NTS effort, I think it would be helpful to understand the
> importance of symmetric peering mode.
> 
> Can folks on this list please share their experience about using symmetric
> mode?  Do you use it, and if so why (or why not), and if so in what
> operational environment are you using it?

We used peering about as long as we used NTP (since 1993 or so). Unfortunately the latest NTP release broke NTP peering with authentication (bug 3001), so we turned it off until 
the issue is fixed.

> 
> Thanks,
> Sharon
> 
> -- 
> Sharon Goldberg
> Computer Science, Boston University
> http://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe

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