On 2014-04-02, Sander Smeenk <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Miroslav Lichvar ([email protected]): > >> > > I guess it could also be a IPv6 ref mangling issue? >> > That could well be. We use IPv6 where we can. >> For IPv6 addresses the refid is defined as first 4 bytes of the MD5 >> sum of the address. With 2001:7b8:3:32:213:136:0:252 (tt52.ripe.net) >> that is 0xac023551, or 172.2.53.81 in the quad-dotted notation. > > Miroslav, you're right. This is it. Thanks. > I've changed everything over to IPv4 by not using hostnames anywhere. > The IP is gone.
The refid is a 32-bit value used for loop detection. Only under IPv4 does the refid _happen_ to be an actual IP address. See [email protected] for more detail. > I consider this a bug. Then feel free to add your voice to http://bugs.ntp.org/278 -- Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
