On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 10:14:05AM -0500, Steven A. Falco wrote:
On 11/2/20 9:33 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> I'm not sure how many users of ntp are there. As a replacement, we
> could package ntpsec. It is an actively maintained fork of ntp which
> has removed a lot of code and fixed or avoided most of the issues in
> ntp. What I don't like much about it is that they kept the mode-6
> protocol of NTP, which allows traffic amplification and is still
> causing problems on Internet, but I think the code and the project are
> definitely in a better shape than ntp. I can help with the packaging
> or review, and as a comaintainer if there is a volunteer for the
> role of the primary maintainer.
>
I use ntp heavily for multiple stratum 1 timeservers here. If you
drop ntp, I will have to build my own from source. Not a big problem,
but I'd personally like to see ntp stay available in Fedora.
Would NTPSec (
https://www.ntpsec.org/accomplishments.html) work for you?
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