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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NTP Md5 or AutoKey?
> On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:11 AM, Glen Kent wrote: > > My original question got drowned amidst all this vibrant discussions! > > > > Do folks already use or plan to use Autokey for NTP? > > In my experience most people have a hard enough time remembering to > run ntp at all (and with an even remotely sane configuration - this is > why a sane default using the ntp pool is helpful as a baseline). Add > authentication into the mix and many operations will almost certainly > just have even more mis-configuration. :-) One of the things to lament is that it is so hard to find any reasonable examples of how to set up various configurations in a secure manner. There is voluminous documentation. Some of it is dated. Some of it is contradictory. Most of it assumes at least general familiarity with the topic. Accurate time/NTP is, on one hand, fundamentally important to a variety of needs, but on the other hand, is usually implemented just "well enough." ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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