Re: ntpd listening on alias interfaces seems non-trivial

2004-01-18 Thread Marius Olsthoorn
Ntp uses its own protocol on top of UDP. Each ntp packet includes source and destination addresses of the communication. The ntpd server uses this data and checks if a answer came from the same host the request was sent to. If this is not the case, it assumes something is wrong. In your setup clie

Re: ntpd listening on alias interfaces seems non-trivial

2004-01-18 Thread Marius Olsthoorn
Ntp uses its own protocol on top of UDP. Each ntp packet includes source and destination addresses of the communication. The ntpd server uses this data and checks if a answer came from the same host the request was sent to. If this is not the case, it assumes something is wrong. In your setup clie