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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NTP Documentation via GNU AutoGen (GSoC 2010)

• Student: KapilaBogahapitiya
• Mentors: BruceKorb, HarlanStenn
• GSoC: GSoC Project Page

Summary

Related Items: GNUAutoGenConversion, GNUAutoGenImprovements, https://code.google.com/p/ntp-gsoc-autogen/, NtpAutogenUsage, GSoC2009NtpDocumentationViaAutoGen

Timeline

Date	Task	Description	% Done
100426		Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2010 site.
25Apr - 24May	ntp.keys(5)	I will be starting from documenting ntp.keys(5) command. i have allocated full month for documenting ntp.keys(5)
24May - 06Jun	ntp.conf(5)	This command include large amount of information. Threfore i have allocated 4 weeks to work on this command.
06Jun - 20Jun	ntp.conf(5)	Same process as above
20Jun - 04Jul	ntprc()	This command does not have FreeBSD reference. therefore i would have to work with Harlan Stenn to get the data for definition file. This is the first step for this command
04Jul - 16Jul	sntp	submit code for mid evaluation , submit status report for mid evaluation
16Jul - 30Jul	tickadj	this command does not have FreeBSD reference. therefore i would have to work with Harlan Stenn to get the data for definition file. This is the first step for this command
30Jul - 16Aug	timetrim	this command does not have FreeBSD reference. therefore i would have to work with Harlan Stenn to get the data for definition file. This is the first step for this command

Discussion and Comments

I'm not particularly worried about tickadj and timetrim. Depending on how things go, we may want to use the time at the end of this effort to make sure that AutoGen contains the parts of this project that it needs, hopefully minimizing the amount of support files that we need to provide to AutoGen to handle the documentation.

-- HarlanStenn - 2010-05-26

Kapila, we'll also want to go over the list in GNUAutoGenConversion to make sure we got everything.

-- HarlanStenn - 2010-05-26