The following reply was made to PR bin/35479; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
To: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/35479: /usr/sbin/timedc fails
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:09:25 +0100

 Alright, so OpenBSD won't reply to requests from ports below 1024 or the NFS port.
 The issue is in OpenBSD (inetd) and not in NetBSD. Their implementation is not
 compatible with any other and it's not documented either.
 
 I don't see a good and clean way to work around this in NetBSD. One option would
 be a command-line parameter to use an unprivileged port. This would still fail
 in a mixed environment. Another is to use two sockets and send everything twice.
 Or NetBSD could behave as OpenBSD and break interoperability with itself and
 any other implementation.
 
 I think their "fix" is pretty half-assed, so I wouldn't follow that route.
 
 -- 
 Christian