Interface iteration
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Jan 13 12:21:21 UTC 2021
While looking for old mail tangled with #690, I stumbled into this, from Eric.
Did we ever do anything with this? This seems like a wonderful opportunity.
The catch may be that ntpd needs to know which interface a packet arrived on,
actually the destination IP address.
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You missed some interesting discussion on IRC last night (for after
release). While working on the CVEs Daniel has spotted that all the
iteration-over-interfaces stuff (which is 75% of ntp_io.c and almost
all of what's left of the ISC library) is unnecessary if we trust
IPv4/IPv6 wildcard addresses to work (which are POSIX).
This is kind of a big deal not just because of the LOC reduction but
because it would let us sever a major and several minor platform
dependencies - not just getifaddrs but the routing-sockets stuff as
well.
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