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- Subject: Re: [chrony-dev] Can we add refid to peers and servers?
- From: Nuno Gonçalves <nunojpg@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:35:10 +0200
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Maybe a dual null terminated c-string where current protocol clients
would stop on the first null?
I'm throwing this without checking the actual protocol...
Thanks,
Nuno
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:55 PM Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:31:55PM +0200, Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
> > I would like to be able to identify from chronyc sources/sourcestats
> > the corresponding server on the configuration file.
> >
> > Currently I can only obtain the IP address or the reverse DNS lookup.
> >
> > Could it fit in the runtime structure/monitoring protocol a additional
> > field for either the original DNS name used in the config, or
> > eventually a user free text tag set with refid?
>
> Yes, but it would be an incompatible change, breaking existing
> clients. It would be useful. My use case would be support for adding
> NTP servers from the DHCPv6 option which provides hostnames (unlike IP
> addresses in DHCP).
>
> Also, we will probably need some support for hostnames in the protocol
> for NTS, which requires the hostname to verify the certificate. At
> least for the "add" command. The question is how to do it without
> breaking compatibility.
>
> --
> Miroslav Lichvar
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