Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:40:28 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@ste-land.com>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd question Message-ID: <20040312174028.GW858@nkinkade.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <20040312170842.GB72483@voyager.swabbies.org> References: <404E9061.3050805@ste-land.com> <20040310103622.GA49215@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <404F324B.1000803@ste-land.com> <20040312170842.GB72483@voyager.swabbies.org>
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--McQJJYUzjTUqtsGv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:08:42AM -0800, Joshua Lokken wrote: > * Shaun T. Erickson <ste@ste-land.com> [2004-03-12 08:27]: > > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >=20 > > >Unfortuately if you're going to run ntpd, you can't get rid of these: > > >ntpd(8) will automatically bind to all interfaces on the system, and > > >there are no controls within ntpd to control that. > >=20 > > Darn. Thanks for the suggestions! I was already controlling access to= =20 > > the port with my ipfilter firewall, and will continue to do so. I just= =20 > > believe in not letting anything bind to a port, that isn't required to. > >=20 >=20 > If you're just keeping one machine's clock in sync, > you could try using ntpdate rather than ntpd. >=20 > --=20 > Joshua It is my understanding that ntpdate is deprecated and one should use nptd with the '-q' option instead. Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --McQJJYUzjTUqtsGv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAUfYMO0ZIEthSfkkRAkrLAKDCsrbV+GXqCaATOkY6uKNcbmZ/zACgrMh1 lbHYQAh8x3BTd9F6u6iQNEU= =SutA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --McQJJYUzjTUqtsGv--
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