[ntp:questions] Is it possible to run NTP daemon on loopback interface ?

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Sat Dec 18 14:55:30 UTC 2004


At 12:32 PM +0000 2004-12-18, Aravind babu wrote:

>         Is it possible to run ntpd  on loopback interface ?

	No.  The current code does not have the ability to allow you to 
select which interfaces on which you will/will not listen.  This is 
something we'd like to fix in the future, but I don't know when we 
might be able to make that happen.

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