Ian Bruene via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>: > * What happens when a packet in the middle of the sequence is dropped? Who > knows! If it is seen as a timeout then the client will adjust packet size > and try again... forever. Or maybe it silently doesn't notice? > > * What happens when the final packet is dropped? Same as before, except that > never seeing the "now" field means that silent failure will result in an > infinite loop. I think. > > * If the server data changes enough while the request sequence is running > the system can just fail for no good reason because the error handling for > that doesn't exist. Arguably that is when things are going well; I can > imagine some subtle and wacky hijinks when dumb luck causes it to not fail > properly.
One of these probably exoplains the mystery bug Hal has reoported on WiFi links. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel