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From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz>
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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
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