[ntp:questions] Bugfix Release for NTP Installer for Windows (4.2.4p6 at vegas-v2)

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Tue Jan 13 13:15:16 UTC 2009


David J Taylor wrote:
> Heiko Gerstung wrote:
>> Hi there!
> []
>> Sorry for the fuzz and trouble, I hope we catched this early enough.
>> Any questions? Please contact us at ntp-support at meinberg.de ...
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>   Heiko
> 
> Heiko,
> 
> Thanks for the update.  I now have the running on all my Windows PCs 
> (Windows 2000 Professional, XP Home and Professional, Vista Home Premium 
> and Ultimate).
> 
> One question is whether, on Vista, the installer should provide the option 
> of opening port 123/udp to the outside world so that systems can be 
> monitored or managed?  It would be nice to have it in the installer, with 
> the default off, although I can also see the viewpoint which says leave to 
> a separate security action.  I.e. those who need to do it should take 
> positive action to do it.
> 

I recommend that you don't do that. It should be a conscious decision by
the person installing it and should be done separately. In any case some
things would need to be done outside of the system.

Danny
> Cheers,
> David 



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