[ntp:questions] multicast - TTL

Martin martin at pr41.sk
Sat Feb 17 21:27:18 UTC 2007


(I changed the subject for this separate issue,
it was: multicast - wrong interface)

Peter Pramberger wrote:
> > That's a separate question and most likely a bug. I don't know why the
> > ttl is set to 96, there aren't that many hops in the world...
>
> That's by design. Please see
>
> https://ntp.isc.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=715#c16
> http://lists.ntp.isc.org/pipermail/questions/2005-August/006427.html

Such behavior seems to be not in line with the documentation:
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ttl ttl
    This option is used only with broadcast server and manycast client modes. 
It specifies the time-to-live ttl to use on broadcast server and multicast 
server ... 

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/confopt.html
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	Martin



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