[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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