ntpd vulnerabilities

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Chris Nehren <cnehren+freebsd-security at pobox.com> writes:
> Brett Glass <brett at 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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