> It would be nice if anybody could figure out why this happens. As I
> understand Dave's reply, it is still going to fail on multicast which
> makes it just a workaround for a particular problem not a general fix.
The way I understand the series of tests (of which the one I changed is one)
is that they are to prevent various possible denial of service attacks.
If that is a worry then iptables rules could be used.
Dave said: "The extra test was put in as defense when multicast breaks and the
I/O code is unable to determine which outbound interface will be used." I
would assume that when multicast doesn't break that the test isn't needed. He
did say that in later versions (I assume the alpha ones) that the test was
removed. All I know is that without the patch ntp-4.1.1 is useless in my
configuration.
Someone (not me) should check how well ntp-4.1.1 works on linux with multicast.
Bill Sebok Computer Software Manager, Univ. of Maryland, Astronomy
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