[ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

Martin Burnicki martin.burnicki at meinberg.de
Wed Jan 14 09:35:27 UTC 2009


Dave Hart wrote:
> On Jan 13, 5:39 am, Steve Kostecke <koste... at ntp.org> wrote:
>> On 2009-01-13, Dave Hart <daveh... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Just build a binary that requires WinXP/Windows Server 2003 or
>>
>> The NTP Project releases The NTP Reference Implementation only as source
>> code.
>>
>> Steve Kostecke <koste... at ntp.org>
>> NTP Public Services Project -http://support.ntp.org/
> 
> Yes, thank you for pointing that out.  That source code is typically
> compiled by some kind soul into a Windows binary and distributed to
> others, since Windows has the fatal flaw of lacking a C compiler in
> the default installation.  That binary, as a result, is run on systems
> old and new across the world, sometimes running very different
> versions of Windows compared to the one used by the kind soul to build
> the binary.
> 
> We are discussing how to modify the reference NTP source code so that
> at runtime it can avail itself of the IPv6-aware resolver on newer
> Windows systems which have it.  At runtime because otherwise those
> Win32 NTP binaries would fail to load at all on Wiindows NT and
> Windows 2000, which do not export the IPv6 resolver from their
> ws2_32.dll.

Dave,

what you write hits exactly the point and I fully agree.

Martin
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