Re: DragonFly-2.1.1.346.g4d1d7 master usr.sbin/dntpd client.h defs.h dntpd.8 main.c socket.c

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> commit 4d1d74ba3c1fe85df343e4059c80bc704eec0312
> Author: Matthias Schmidt <matthias@dragonflybsd.org>
> Date:   Fri Jan 9 12:35:25 2009 +0100
>
>     Add IPv6 support to dntpd
>     
>     This commit allows dntpd to work with either IPv4 or IPv6 NTP servers.  I added
>     two new command line switches (-4/-6) to force dntpd to use only v4/v6 addresses.
>     Thanks to sephe@ for some good hints.

Are you sure this works if the ipv6 server is unreachable?  I don't think 
that a connect(2) on a udp socket will find that out.  You'd actually have 
to connect the server to realize that something doesn't work.

Also, you could pass "ntp" instead of 123 to udp_socket/getaddrinfo.

cheers
  simon

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