On Sunday 09 September 2007, Nelson Minar wrote:
> Is it really true ntpd doesn't have an option to bind to a specific
> interface? Ouch!
>
here are two of the msgs i discovered. there were at least 7 others all saying
the same thing.
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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 01:31, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> So how to I tell ntpd to bind to a specific IP address?
ISC's ntpd doesn't support that, AFAIK. However, depending on your needs,
you might be able to use OpenNTPD which does have that feature.
--
Kirk Strauser
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the url for this entry is
http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/a51f8b10d8ac897e/5a26231099e34eaf%235a26231099e34eaf
and another one:
the url for the one below is:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-January/109196.html
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From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk]
> Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> > I don't like (let alone want) ntpd binding to every IP address on
> > the host. The man pages don't say anything about specifying a
> > binding address for ntpd. A search of the sources and Google
> > also failed to reveal anything useful.
> >
> > So how to I tell ntpd to bind to a specific IP address?
>
> ntpd doesn't have that functionality I'm afraid. The next best you
> can do is review your /etc/ntpd.conf 'restrict' rules carefully and
> implement a firewall to control access to port 123/UDP.
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i have searched for the past hour and found nothing but news like above.
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Chuck
> Tapio Sokura wrote:
> > Chuck wrote:
> >
> >> i have only one server i can run ntp.org software on because of the
multiple
> >> address binding problem.
> >>
> >
> > Why can't you let ntpd bind to all interfaces? If you really need to
> > block certain interfaces/addresses, you could just firewall them out. Or
> > rather allow NTP only on the address/interface you want and block all
> > others.
> >
> >
> >> is it possible to use openntpd for servers destined for the list as
stratum2?
> >> that software from openntpd.org supports binding ip addresses.
> >>
> >
> > openntpd is rather poor algorithmically, i.e. the quality of time served
> > is worse than with ntpd. But I guess it could be enough for pool usage.
> >
> > Tapio
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