[ntp:questions] Re: Servers just doen't work (after following the troubleshooting page)

Ronan Flood ronan at noc.ulcc.ac.uk
Wed Sep 28 14:39:08 UTC 2005


per at hedeland.org (Per Hedeland) wrote:

> As to the -L flag, that's another of those unfortunate parameters that
> have different meaning in different versions of ntpd - the official docs
> say:
> 
> -L
>     Do not listen to virtual IPs. The default is to listen. 
> 
> - i.e. just the opposite of what the OP needs. However I know for a fact
> that at least some versions shipped with RedHat (including the one the
> OP is using) have a -L option that does mean the opposite of the above,
> i.e. it is required for correct operation with secondary/virtual/alias
> addresses. In short, your advice is probably right for the OP, but not
> universal.:-) I don't know whether this difference is due to changes in
> the reference implementation or to special mods in the RedHat version.

ntpd 4.2.0 reversed the meaning of -L used in prior versions.

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                      Ronan Flood <R.Flood at noc.ulcc.ac.uk>
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