[6bone] IPv6 NTP testing

Frederick Bruckman fredb@immanent.net
Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:49:25 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Kimmo Suominen wrote:

> I also think more modern versions of ntpd (4.x?) do this all differently.
> I was recently tinkering with the code on NetBSD, and when I offered my
> changes to one of the ntpd developers, I learned that that section of
> the code is being rewritten from scratch.
>
> Hopefully there are directives in the new code to restrict the selection
> of IPs to listen to.  I could have a look, but someone like John Klos
> might already know the answer (wasn't he just writing to this list on
> this thread earlier...).

Yes, that part of the code has changed since NetBSD's last import --
for one thing, it now supports IPv6 -- but no, it still binds all the
IP addresses. I predict it will take nothing short of a proper bug
report on http://bugzilla.ntp.org to get that fixed.

Frederick