[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#451525: Bug#451525: ntpdate: The -d flag uses the privileged sourceport 123.

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Montag, 26. November 2007 schrieb Philipp Winter:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Do you have a way to confirm that?  The code does not agree with your
> > observation.
>
> I did not take a look at the source code. I used wireshark to capture
> the network traffic while running:
> $ sudo ntpdate -d pool.ntp.org
>
> The captured file showed that the sourceport for each sent request
> was 123 (and not an unprivileged port).

Ah yes, I can confirm it.  This is because of ntpdate-debug.patch, which was 
probably made in response to bug #253571, which requests the behavior 
opposite to what you want.

I would personally like to remove this patch.  It is not our job to determine 
what kind of debug mode is useful.  If additional behavior is desired, we can 
consider it and forward the ideas upstream.