Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:14:56 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Rob <robaree@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Is OpenNTPD better than the included NTPD? Message-ID: <452D50C0.8040403@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20061011194027.GA22001@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <6bcc7a470610111231g67186cc0n687a96bd4d808bb5@mail.gmail.com> <20061011194027.GA22001@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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
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