Hal Murray via devel <[email protected]>:
>
> > It is important to specify -g on the command line to allow NTP to correct
> > the clock on boot. However, if Restart=yes is set, a malicious (or broken)
> > server could send the incorrect time, trip the panic threshold, and when
> > ntpd restarts, serve it the incorrect time (which would be accepted).
>
> Should we collect a list of configuration issues that admins (and distros)
> should think about?
Yes. I'm not competent to do it, though - my grasp of ntpd operations
is still relatively weak, at leasr compared to you and Gary.
Perhaps you could collect notes on this?
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