[ntp:hackers] gorilla wrangler with Unix chops soliticited
Danny Mayer
mayer at ntp.org
Mon Jun 1 11:42:16 UTC 2009
Dave Hart wrote:
> I have updated the code on pogo:~hart/ntp-dev-block with a lot of
> cleanup of warnings and no longer leak any allocated memory on
> Windows. I added an async getnameinfo interface, but nothing in ntpd
> currently does address to name lookups, so it's only exercised by test
> code. After ntp.conf is processed, a handful of pointless async
> getaddrinfo name -> address lookups are started, and for each address
> returned, a reverse lookup is performed using the new async
> getnameinfo.
>
We don't need getnameinfo() for anything in ntpd. Only ntpq uses it, so
while of interest it is not necessary.
> I'm still hoping for some help on the Unix side. On the plus side, a
> lingering ntpd on the previously mentioned system where i have sudo
> ntpd privs but not root has been cleaned up, so I should be able to
> bumble ahead myself.
We will see what I find.
Danny
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