Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:21:54 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: G?bor K?vesd?n <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Rob <robaree@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Is OpenNTPD better than the included NTPD? Message-ID: <20061011202154.GA22728@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <452D50C0.8040403@FreeBSD.org> References: <6bcc7a470610111231g67186cc0n687a96bd4d808bb5@mail.gmail.com> <20061011194027.GA22001@xor.obsecurity.org> <452D50C0.8040403@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:14:56PM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote: > 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. I misread and thought he was asking for a server. Kris
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