UNS: Re: NTP security hole CVE-2013-5211?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon Jan 27 15:39:07 UTC 2014


Fabian Wenk <fabian at wenks.ch> writes:
> I think it is a bad advice, then ntpd is much nicer to NTP servers
> (mainly the NTP Pool), then sntp is.  [snip irrelevant details]

ntpd is a particular implementation of the NTP protocol and algorithm.

SNTP is a protocol.

Comparing one to the other is simply meaningless.

It is entirely possible to write a well-behaved SNTP client.

DES
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