[ntp:questions] systems won't synchronize no matter what

Martin Burnicki martin.burnicki at meinberg.de
Fri Oct 29 07:31:52 UTC 2010


Dave Hart wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 17:07 UTC, Hal Murray wrote:
>> How hard would it be to add some code to check to see if
>> the IP Address from a server line will get rejected by
>> the restrict statements and log a warning message?
> 
> That's not a bad idea, and I encourage you to pursue it.  The original
> poster is using ntpd 4.2.2, so it will be a while before that sort of
> change now would help those like the OP.
> 
> 4.2.7 adds "restrict source" which allows you to set a different
> restriction for all servers/peers listed.  So this will work:
> 
> server 1.2.3.4
> restrict default ignore
> restrict localhost
> restrict source notrap

Why do you explicitely have to enable this?

Shouldn't it be the default behaviour to allow contacting servers which have
explicitely been configured?

Martin
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