On Sunday, July 12, 2015, Alistair Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’m currently running a scan of the internet and querying NTP versions. > > I’ll publish the results of it on Github and mail them in here :) > > Please don't. Please see http://openntpproject.org/ > > > > On 12/07/2015 15:15, "NANOG on behalf of Mike O'Connor" < > [email protected] <javascript:;> on behalf of [email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > >:Thanks, and I'm kinda stunned that folks are running such ancient > >:versions of NTP. > > > >I suggest you get accustomed to being stunned. > > > >:https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/ReleaseTimeline > >: > >:4.2.0 was EOL'd in June of 2006, and we've fixed about 3,000 issues in > >:the codebase since then. > > > >4.2.0 may have been EOL'd in 2006, but it was still shipping as the > >default in FreeBSD until 2009. > > > >Out of those 3000 issues, only a tiny fraction are security-related > >that would apply to JunOS. I expect that they backport security and > >other fixes as necessary, until some bigger engineering effort and|or > >headache calls for a forklift/mass upgrade of things. > > > > > >-- > > Michael J. O'Connor > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > =--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--= > >"Fire me, boy!" -The Human > Bullet > >
