NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemons are not susceptible to being used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Please also take this opportunity to defeat denial-of-service attacks by implementing Ingress and Egress filtering through BCP38.

ntp-4.2.8p15 was released on 23 June 2020. It addresses 1 medium-severity security issue in ntpd, and provides 13 non-security bugfixes over 4.2.8p13.

Please see the NTP Security Notice for vulnerability and mitigation details.

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Are you using Autokey in production? If so, please contact Harlan - he's got some questions for you.

Backroom Email

Requirements from UDel and Dave

whimsy is the only machine in the backroom flock that may accept incoming internet email.

Background, and (mutual) "nice to have" items

Dave generally works on deacon, the fastest machine in the backroom.

Harlan generally works on whimsy, a usefully fast machine.

Harlan tries to stay out of Dave's way.

When Dave runs a build, it would be Great if no auto* processes or the configure script needed to run.

Requirements from the Development and Release Engineering process

The development and release engineering process for NTP requires outgoing email from the master repository, currently on deacon.

Outgoing email is used for:

• commit log messages
• change log messages
• delta emails
• SCM trigger notifications
• trigger tripwire notifications
• commit "change diffs"