[ntp:questions] Re: restrict options

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Tue Jul 12 02:32:12 UTC 2005


Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> eponymousalias at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> The restrict statement does not allow domain names.  IP addresses only!
>>> Fixing this is on the queue but probably won't happen soon.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> That's interesting.  Then how come
>> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/accopt.html
>> (last updated June 14, 2005) says this capability already exists?
>>
>>  
>>
> The capability may now exist in a "dev" version of the code.  It does 
> not exist in the stable version of the code; witness the fact that  DNS 
> names do not work in the stable version.
> 
Sorry, I'm afraid not. Noone's touched that code in a while.

> If you need the feature and want to run "bleeding edge" code to get it, 
> you could try the latest dev release.

While we encourage people to run the newer dev releases when possible, 
it won't help for this.

Danny



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