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Re: [Tsv-art] [Ntp] Tsvart last call review of draft-ietf-ntp-port-randomization-06

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Fri, 26 February 2021 20:30 UTC

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fgont@si6networks.com said:
> 1) There's only one implementation that I know of that uses the service
>     port as the source port of client requests. As a ressult, enforcing
>     such a rule would prevent all other implementations from working. 

One reason for doing that is to prevent 2 programs that adjust the clock from 
running at the same time.  If some other program is already using port 123, a 
second program will get an error when it tries to bind its socket to the 
already-in-use port.


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