From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 17:18:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6326248B; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 17:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (24-240-198-187.static.stls.mo.charter.com [24.240.198.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "webmail2.dweimer.local", Issuer "webmail2.dweimer.local" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D8121904; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 17:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (webmail [192.168.5.2]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s84HHoEW041872 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:17:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:17:50 -0500 From: dweimer To: Clayton Milos Subject: Re: Stale NTP software included in FreeBSD (RELEASE/STABLE/CURRENT) Organization: dweimer.net Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net In-Reply-To: <540881EC.7010407@milos.co.za> References: <20140903061024.GA14382@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> <20140903120746.GI63085@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20140903134946.GA24397@satori.lan> <1409763486566-5945075.post@n5.nabble.com> <540881EC.7010407@milos.co.za> Message-ID: X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.2 Cc: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:18:00 -0000 On 09/04/2014 10:14 am, Clayton Milos wrote: > On 2014/09/03 06:58 PM, Jakub Lach wrote: >> I'm partial to openntpd too, but I've remember that it was accused of >> unfriendly behaviour toward time servers. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Stale-NTP-software-included-in-FreeBSD-RELEASE-STABLE-CURRENT-tp5944907p5945075.html >> Sent from the freebsd-stable mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I've been using openntpd for some time myself. The reason I did so was > because you can put this in the config: > listen on 192.168.1.2 > > Very handy when you have multiple interfaces and do not want it > listening on public interfaces. I'm of the opinion that a daemon > should have the option on what interfaces it listens. Firewalls are > there to protect, not as a workaround for an application that lacks > critical features. > > \\Clay You can add this to rc.conf, if I am not mistaken, and it will do the same thing for ntpd ntpd_flags="-I 192.168.1.2" Probably not quite as clean as adding it to the configuration file, but gets the job done. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/