From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 20:15:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE5416A40F for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:15:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E0943D73 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:15:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C66D99F469; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:14:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oPKCH0vX6rFm; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:14:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.186] (catv-50635cb6.catv.broadband.hu [80.99.92.182]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4E899F42D; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:14:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <452D50C0.8040403@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:14:56 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <6bcc7a470610111231g67186cc0n687a96bd4d808bb5@mail.gmail.com> <20061011194027.GA22001@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20061011194027.GA22001@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Rob Subject: Re: Is OpenNTPD better than the included NTPD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:15:02 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:31:47PM -0400, Rob wrote: > >> I don't plan on allowing anyone to connect to my machine or use it as >> a NTPD server. I see that OpenNTPD (OpenBSD's version) by default >> doesn't listen on any IP/port and seems a little more secure. Is this >> a good one to use over the included one in FreeBSD, or is there >> something better? >> > > How are you going to run an NTP server that doesn't listen on any > IP/port? > > Kris > He might want to use it only for syncing, but ntpd also has such sort of function irrc. Anyway, OpenNTPD can do privilege separation, that ntpd can't, I don't know about another difference in the functionality. Personally, I use OpenNTPD from ports and I'm satisfied with it. -- Cheers, Gabor