Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.6 Released

2009-12-18 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article 0oppv6-s2s@gateway.py.meinberg.de, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de writes: Martin What I've disliked is that the announcement of 4.2.6 emphasizes the Martin latest security fix only, which is also in 4.2.4p8. Agreed, and I was massively time-crunched and didn't have

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.6 Released

2009-12-17 Thread Ronan Flood
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:51:46 -0500, NTP Public Services Project webmas...@ntp.org wrote: * If an attacker spoofs an address of ntpd host A in a mode 7 response packet sent to ntpd host A, A will respond to itself endlessly, Academic, but is that true? I thought the ntpport, interface, ignore

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.6 Released

2009-12-17 Thread Martin Burnicki
Dave Hart wrote: On Dec 15, 10:25 UTC, Martin Burnicki wrote: 4.2.6 contains a real bunch of changes against 4.2.4p8 which have not been mentioned here, but significantly change the way ntpd works, so users should carefully check if they want to upgrade to 4.2.6 right now.

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.6 Released

2009-12-15 Thread Martin Burnicki
NTP Public Services Project wrote: [...] This release fixes the following high-severity vulnerability: * [Sec 1331] DoS with mode 7 packets - CVE-2009-3563. http://bugs.ntp.org/1331 See http://support.ntp.org/security for more information. This security fix is also in 4.2.4p8. Even a

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.6 Released

2009-12-15 Thread Dave Hart
On Dec 15, 10:25 UTC, Martin Burnicki wrote: 4.2.6 contains a real bunch of changes against 4.2.4p8 which have not been mentioned here, but significantly change the way ntpd works, so users should carefully check if they want to upgrade to 4.2.6 right now.

[ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.6 Released

2009-12-12 Thread NTP Public Services Project
Redwood City, CA - 2009/12/12 - The NTP Public Services Project (http://support.ntp.org/) is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.6, a Stable Release of the NTP Reference Implementation from the NTP Project, is now available at http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html and http://support.ntp.org/download.