With a larger number of configured servers, the handler of the emulated
resolver repeatedly scheduled timeout of zero, which triggered the
infinite loop detection in the scheduler and caused abort. This bug was
introduced in commit 967e358dbc.
Rework the code to use pipes instead of timeouts to avoid this problem.
Replace struct timeval with struct timespec as the main data type for
timestamps. This will allow the NTP code to work with timestamps in
nanosecond resolution.
Add support for authenticating MS-SNTP responses in Samba (ntp_signd).
Supported is currently only the old MS-SNTP authenticator field. It's
disabled by default. It can be enabled with the --enable-ntp-signd
configure option and the ntpsigndsocket directive, which specifies the
location of the Samba ntp_signd socket.
Instead of calling the handler directly schedule a timeout with zero
delay for resolving to make the function behave similarly to the real
asynchronous resolver. This should prevent problems with code that
inadvertently depends on this behavior and which would break only when
compiled without support for asynchronous resolving.
The pool directive can be used to configure chronyd for a pool of NTP
servers (e.g. pool.ntp.org). The name is expected to resolve to multiple
addresses which change over time.
On start, a source will be added for each resolved address. When a
source from the pool is unreachable or marked as falseticker, chronyd
will try to replace the source with a newly resolved address of the
pool.
The minimum interval between replacements is currently set to 244
seconds to avoid frequent DNS requests.
