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Monday, December 22, 2014

Re: ntpd vulnerabilities

Chris Nehren <cnehren+freebsd-security@pobox.com> writes:
> Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> writes:
> > I'd like to propose that FreeBSD move to OpenNTPD, which appears to
> > have none of the [...] vulnerabilities that are present in ntpd.
> [...] I am reticent to support more software going into the base
> system. It should be small enough to build itself and bootstrap the
> ports tree, with very little else.

I absolutely agree. If we replace the NTP suite, it will be with a
minimal SNTP client, although no decision has been made.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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