On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 02:23:54AM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> You said "shorter lived certs" a couple of times.  Are you thinking of short 
> enough to cover temporarily removing servers with bad time from the pool?  If 
> so, that won't work.
> 
> If all goes well, the NTS-KE step is very rare.  The client gets 8 cookies.  
> Each NTP exchange uses a cookie and gets back a new cookie.  If an occasional 
> packet is lost, the client can ask for extras.  The NTP side just keeps 
> running if the server's certificate expires.

I think that's no different from how NTP clients currently work with
the pool. If a server is removed from the pool, the clients will use
it until it's marked as a falseticker or unreachable. It doesn't
matter if it was removed from DNS or its certificate expired.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

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