[ntp:hackers] Re: casting and wildcards

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Aug 5 20:38:19 UTC 2005


In message <20050805203518.9E4EF13A76 at sa.vix.com>, Paul Vixie writes:
># If it is the need to know the destination address of the UDP packet,
># can't you get that with IP_RECVDSTADDR? Or is it that you do not wish
># to rely on its existence?
>
>it's so that on a multihomed host, the source of ntpd's response can be
>forced to be the same as the destination of the request.
>
># By the way, when xntpd was ported to Solaris, it was converted to use
># poll instead of select, since poll does not have the same limitations
># as select. Is there any reason not to do the same for V4?
>
>i'd rather see it converted to isc eventlib, which hides this detail (and
>a lot of other details).

Both of these are already the case in the NTPns I've started.

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