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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: workaround for talk's address problem
To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 12:55:40 +1000 (EST)
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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