[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#451525: Bug#451525: ntpdate: The -d flag uses the privileged sourceport 123.
Philipp Winter
0x2e8de at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 22:38:30 UTC 2007
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).
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