On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 12:02:36PM +0000, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 12:49:30PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 11:44:15AM +0000, hmjsp wrote: > > > disable ntpd? why? > > > > See https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=177296357231841&w=2 > > Just to make it clear to anyone reading the archives in the future, the > suggestion to disable ntpd was a joke and a form of irony.
I had started writing a longish and detailed explanation to clear up some points related to the message sent to bugs@ there, but decided that it would not be worth the effort. > Unfortunately the original two messages were posted to different lists, (-bugs > and -misc), so it's entirely possible that this could be missed by casual > readers of just one list. > > There is _no serious suggestion_ to disable ntpd. Well, if the original poster _has_ disabled ntpd on their system, sooner or later it might be fun to watch what they come up with in subsequent messages. As in, stuff will likely not start breaking right away. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
