Stale NTP software included in FreeBSD (RELEASE/STABLE/CURRENT)

[dweimer]

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.
>> 
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> 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.

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