Package: msntp
Version: 1.6.dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Time servers in the domain pool.ntp.org have names of the form
n.tld.pool.ntp.org where 'n' is a number and 'tld' is a country 2 letter
tld. Examples are 1.ie.pool.ntp.org and 2.fr.ntp.org. msntp will not
connect to them:
$ msntp 1.fr.pool.ntp.org
msntp: invalid IP number 1.fr.pool.ntp.org
$
The sntp program in the ntp distribution(ntp-4.2.4p4) which appears
to have the same author will connect to them:
$ sntp 1.fr.pool.ntp.org
2008 Jun 15 00:09:11.000402 + 1.297519 +/- 0.145787 secs
$
sntp and msntp on my system use the same libraries:
$ ldd $(type -p msntp)
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7f5c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e0e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f90000)
$ ldd $(type -p sntp)
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7f24000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7dd6000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f58000)
The work-around is trivial - use host names such as fr.pool.ntp.org
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages msntp depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
msntp recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
