Ask on newsgroup about making sanity checks mandatory, default, or optional Rob Landley says disable checks with CONFIG to save space good to know why something fails Denis Vlasenko recommends not checking UDP source, since that can break on multihomed server, confirmed for ntpd Denis also says "Give a message. You may make it configurable: ntpclient: dropped malformed packet[: ] Ask for pre-release comments from Walter Harms and others Exit without warning if -f is the only option Leap second, crib from openntpd? worthless! Look at wikipedia "unix time" article IPv6? Multiple (interleaved) servers compile-time option for unlimited (malloc) or limited (no-malloc, for hard-embedded use) number of servers Test handle laptop suspend? Drift file - read on startup, save on SIGxxxx