[ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid
Sat Feb 9 21:03:06 UTC 2008


Harlan Stenn wrote:
>>>> In article <47ad8971$0$514$5a6aecb4 at news.aaisp.net.uk>, David Woolley <david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes:
> 

> David> I'm not convinced that SNTP will displace ntpdate for this purpose.
> 
> Why not?

Because ntpdate is fixed in the popular culture and, for the ordinary 
user, SNTP doesn't offer any obvious advantages.
> 

> If you want to get the time set *now* and then start, regardless of how well
> the system can maintain that time, we can do that (sntp/ntpdate+ntpd).

Not in Dave Mills future of ntpd, as you don't get ntpdate or SNTP.

> 
> If you want to set the time ASAP and have stable system time before starting
> your apps, in the usual case you are talking about 11 seconds for this to
> happen (ntpd -g, with iburst, early in the boot sequence, using ntp-wait
> later in the boot sequence, just before starting time-critical services).

I suspect that only sets the time to the nearest 128ms, unless it does 
something that ntpd doesn't normally do.




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