[ntp:questions] Re: Servers just doen't work (after following the troubleshooting page)

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Wed Sep 28 11:50:39 UTC 2005


At 2:55 AM -0700 2005-09-28, David Schwartz wrote:

>      Of course, but that's broken design. The effect of listening on "virtual
>  IPs" or what constitues a virtual IP is a platform-specific thing. The flag
>  should specify what NTP does, not how it does it. If it's going to be a
>  platform-specific flag, it should be carefully arranged so that specifying
>  *no* platform-specific flags gets you as close to the same behavior on all
>  platforms.

	Danny is in the final stages of getting this problem fixed, and 
my understanding is that it's going to work the same way on all 
platforms.  This has been a difficult bug to crack, in part because 
we've got issues on platforms that we're not that experienced with, 
and some of those platforms do some pretty whacky (and unexpected) 
things.

	But unless you're involved in the actual fixing of the bug, 
there's no point in your pontificating on what should or should not 
be done.  Work with Danny to get this issue resolved, or at least let 
him be the one to say what is or is not going to happen.  If you 
disagree with the way he says that things will be done, then you 
would have a valid point to discuss.


	Until then, this is all a pointless tempest in a teapot, created 
by a bunch of people who can yammer on all night long, but who 
otherwise have no involvement in the actual fixing of the bug.

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