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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 1995 12:55:40 +1000 (EST)
From:      michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
To:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        pete@puffin.pelican.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: workaround for talk's address problem
Message-ID:  <199508080255.MAA29765@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <9508071925.AA01228@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Aug 7, 95 03:25:08 pm
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> xntpd MUST listen on all interfaces because it MUST send back replies
> with a source address identical to the destination address in the
> query.

Whilst it makes a good attempt at this, xntpd is a bad example. Unlike
named, it fails to recognise alias addresses for the same interface. It will
only listen on the primary address,

	michael
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