[Nagiosplug-devel] check_ntp plugin issues
sean finney
seanius at seanius.net
Tue Mar 14 02:31:06 CET 2006
hi ton, andreas,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:09:16AM +0000, Ton Voon wrote:
> My preference would be for C routines that would produce a single,
> independent executable, but if it has to be in Perl, then so be it.
my thoughts exactly...
> You can take the lead on this Sean. I just need to know if you think
> it will be stable enough for 1.4.3 release or whether it is best to
> wait for the subsequent release.
okay... i'll let you know after i've written the code :)
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:16:33AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> yuck... Perhaps the code from the module can be re-used instead? NTP
> being a binary protocol I doubt it's implemented as perl.
nope. i just fetched the source package and it's a .pm library
with some funky pack/unpack code...
> For public, unencrypted NTPv3 servers it's not terribly difficult. For
> servers with encrypted transfers it's definitely harder (I think 75% of
> the code in the current ISC ntpd handles the auto-key dancing).
yeah, that's what it seems. looks like sending and then receiving
a udp packet, and then extracting the fields. since afaict the
currently plugin doesn't handle any encryption related parts
of the protocol, we wouldn't be introducing a regression either.
sean
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