ntpd/ntpq tangle

Fred Wright fw at fwright.net
Tue Jul 7 21:58:22 UTC 2026


On Tue, 7 Jul 2026, Hal Murray via devel wrote:

[...]
> I can easily hack ntp_control to return any simple fixed text string if
> that will make things simpler on your end.  But maybe you should handle
> the no-srcadr case anyway.
>
> I think the old code would return "0.0.0.0"

Umm, ntpq is supposed to work aith *all* ntp servers, not just ntpsec's. 
So fixing a client bug on the server side would be inappropriate.

Fred Wright


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