SINGLESOCK - How much to strip away?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 12:39:39 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Gary said:
> > You may say that can be duplicate in your firewall settings.  But
> > maybe you want to run two ntpd ...  
> 
> I assume firewalls are smart enough to allow different rules for
> different servers.

Yes, but not smart enough to allow two servers, each on the wild card
address, to server different IP ranges.

> "firewall" is potentially ambiguous in this discussion.

Yup.  And asking it to split appart wild card servers is asking too much.

> My "different rules" comment was for a box.  If you are talking about 
> software running on the local system you may need different rules for
> each system.

You got you use cases, I got mine.  We need to server them all.

> > Almost, but not quite, sufficient.  ntpd still needs a way to bind
> > to some IP addresses and not others.   
> 
> If you can enumerate the IP Addresses that you want or the ones you
> don't want, then I think the restrict stuff will work.  The default
> entry handles the others.

Yes, ntpd needs to be able to bind to specific IPs, then my use cases
are handled.  With current restrict functionality.

RGDS
GARY
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