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

[Olaf van der Spek]

Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 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.

So that's no longer an argument to prefer the periodic ntpdate instead 
of the daemon, assuming it gets fixed?