While looking for old mail tangled with #690, I stumbled into this, from Eric. Did we ever do anything with this? This seems like a wonderful opportunity.
The catch may be that ntpd needs to know which interface a packet arrived on, actually the destination IP address. ---------- You missed some interesting discussion on IRC last night (for after release). While working on the CVEs Daniel has spotted that all the iteration-over-interfaces stuff (which is 75% of ntp_io.c and almost all of what's left of the ISC library) is unnecessary if we trust IPv4/IPv6 wildcard addresses to work (which are POSIX). This is kind of a big deal not just because of the LOC reduction but because it would let us sever a major and several minor platform dependencies - not just getifaddrs but the routing-sockets stuff as well. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
