[Cerowrt-devel] DNSSEC & NTP Bootstrapping

Alijah Ballard alijahb at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 10:31:35 EDT 2014


Are there other ways to seed the clock. Can a timestamp be pulled from the
DNS system at all. Or what about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1588. I
have been reading specifications recently and IEEE 1588 is designed for
multicast time acquisition. Any other ideas?


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk>wrote:

> Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU> writes:
>
> > How about writing an RFC to define a well-known NTP anycast address
> > and using that as a fallback? This is a problem that needs to be
> > solved for the larger internet community, not just CeroWRT/OpenWRT.
>
> This would probably be a nice long-term solution (though I'd be worried
> about the DOS potential of such a setup?); we would probably need a
> short-term solution in the intervening years until everyone implements
> this, though... ;)
>
> -Toke
>
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