Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 02:16:51 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Michael Bryan <fbsd-secure@ursine.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: ntpd =< 4.0.99k remote buffer overflow Message-ID: <52942.986429811@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Apr 2001 18:14:37 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20010404181106.044485d0@localhost>
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In message <4.3.2.7.2.20010404181106.044485d0@localhost>, Brett Glass writes: >Workaround: Use > >/usr/sbin/ntpdate -s time.nist.gov (or pick your favorite server) > >periodically from /etc/crontab. (Once a day, at an odd hour and >minute of the morning, is sufficient for most machines.) This >is what we have always done. It reduces overhead because there >isn't a daemon constantly running. And it has a lot worse performance, but let's not get into that... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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