[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#409170: ntp does not react to multicast or broadcast ntp packets

[Kurt Roeckx]

forwarded 409170
thanks

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:55:51PM +0100, Joerg Dorchain wrote:
> Package: ntp
> Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-1
> 
> This package is running on a time server configured to send out
> multicast time informformation via broadcast 224.0.1.1 ttl 1
> 
> They arrive at a client (tcpdump shows it, strange enough with a ttl of
> 32), but it does not react to it.
> 
> The client uses the supplied ntp.conf, with server statements commented
> out and
> 
> disable auth
> multicastclient
> 
> as last lines.
> 
> netstat -g does not show a multicast group membership, and an lsof does
> not show an open multicast socket of ntpd.
> 
> Replacing the 224.0.1.1 on the server with the network broadcast address
> and replacing multicastclient with broadcastclient on the client does
> not change the behaviour.

Can you take a look at
https://ntp.isc.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=495 and see if that's about
your problem?  From the description, it seems to be.


Kurt