On Friday, January 24, 2014 3:46:16 PM UTC+1, David Lord wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: > > > On 2014-01-24, David Lord <sn...@lordynet.org> wrote: > > > > > >> On NetBSD-6 i386 ntp-dev-4.2.7p410 > > >> $ ntpdc -c kern > > >> localhost: timed out, nothing received > > >> ***Request timed out > > >> > > >> Perhaps that is intended behavior for 2014 given recent > > >> DDOS attacks? > > > > > > According to http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ChangeLog-dev > > > mode 7 requests were disabled more than 2 years ago: > > > > > > (4.2.7p230) 2011/11/01 Released by Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> > > > * Disable mode 7 (ntpdc) query processing in ntpd by default. ntpq is > > > believed to provide all functionality ntpdc did, and uses a less- > > > fragile protocol that's safer and easier to maintain. If you do find > > > some management via ntpdc is needed, you can use "enable mode7" in the > > > ntpd configuration. > > > > > > > Before joining the pool in 2009 I'd changed most of my monitoring > > scripts to use ntpq rather than ntpdc. > > > > $ ntpq -c kerninfo me6000e > > associd=0 status=011d leap_none, sync_pps, 1 event, kern, > > pll offset: -0.000148 > > pll frequency: >
Thanks for all the answers. I will rewrite my monitoring scripts to use the ntpq than. It looks like all the code for type 7 packets is still there, it's just disabled by default. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
