Re: Netatalk and NFS


Subject: Re: Netatalk and NFS
From: Chip Mefford (cmefford@avwashington.com)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 16:40:29 EST


Tim Carlson wrote:

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> People keep saying this yet I have never heard of a real life example.
> Reading through the NTP documentation it seems that in fact it is quite
> hard. I mean there such things as keys in an NTP configuration that people
> should use.
>
> Besides that.. all of the script kiddies are more interested in buffer
> overruns :)
>
> > second (~3 seconds if you do the long math) which an hourly rdate will
> > accomplish just fine, with only a trivial security risk. (and cuts down
> > on network traffic too).
>
> I will use more network traffic in sending this one email than NTP will
> use all day :-)
>
> Tim



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