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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:39:04 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UNS: Re: NTP security hole CVE-2013-5211?
Message-ID:  <86fvo9cu3r.fsf@nine.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <52D7A867.7070607@wenks.ch> (Fabian Wenk's message of "Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:37:43 %2B0100")
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Fabian Wenk <fabian@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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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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