The end of the beginning is in sight

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Jan 7 06:28:29 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > Remember that the code *already* uses wildcard addresses as fallbacks, so
> > any security issues these raise have already been present for a long time. 
> 
> >From the log file:
> 
> 17 Nov 03:28:16 ntpd[12949]: Listen and drop on 0 v6wildcard [::]:123
> 17 Nov 03:28:16 ntpd[12949]: Listen and drop on 1 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0:123
> 
> Note the "and drop" in there.

That means those aren't being processed, I gather.
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