Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:18:15PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> 
> >The NTP protocol uses UDP.  If a client sends a packet to a server,
> >it expects to get a response from the same IP address back.  This
> >creates problems for systems with multiple IP addresses.  Since there
> >is no API to get the IP address a packet was send to, it binds to every
> >IP address it finds when starting (and to the wildcard address).  So
> >depending on the socket, it knows which address it was send too.
> 
> Isn't this only an issue for NTP servers and not for clients? I know the 
> daemon implements both, but when you don't use it as server it shouldn't 
> experience this issue.

It's the client that stops working.  And it's probably a regression.


Kurt