[182181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NTP versions in production use?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alistair Mackenzie)
Sun Jul 12 10:25:04 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 15:24:58 +0100
From: Alistair Mackenzie <magicsata@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150712141520.GD99711@dojo.mi.org>
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I=E2=80=99m currently running a scan of the internet and querying NTP versions.
I=E2=80=99ll publish the results of it on Github and mail them in here :)
On 12/07/2015 15:15, "NANOG on behalf of Mike O'Connor" <nanog-bounces@nano=
g.org on behalf of mjo@dojo.mi.org> wrote:
>:Thanks, and I'm kinda stunned that folks are running such ancient
>:versions of NTP.
>
>I suggest you get accustomed to being stunned. =20
>
>:https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/ReleaseTimeline
>:
>:4.2.0 was EOL'd in June of 2006, and we've fixed about 3,000 issues in
>:the codebase since then.
>
>4.2.0 may have been EOL'd in 2006, but it was still shipping as the
>default in FreeBSD until 2009.=20
>
>Out of those 3000 issues, only a tiny fraction are security-related
>that would apply to JunOS. I expect that they backport security and
>other fixes as necessary, until some bigger engineering effort and|or
>headache calls for a forklift/mass upgrade of things.
>
>
>--=20
> Michael J. O'Connor mjo@dojo.mi.=
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