[LEAPSECS] Leap seconds ain't broken

Steve Summit scs+ls at eskimo.com
Tue Jan 3 23:23:34 EST 2017


Hal Murray wrote:
>> Since RFC 5905 describes new, tagged, extended fields for the NTP
>> protocol, this sort of extra information should be very easy to add. 
>
> Nope.  It's the same old problem.  There is lots of existing installed gear 
> that doesn't know about the new fields.

Sure, but in this case, the new fields would be informational
only, so it's not a problem if a given client doesn't grok them.
(And the RFC 5905 extensions are, AFAIK, backwards compatible;
older NTPv3 clients should cleanly ignore them.  Any that don't
will have other problems.)


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