From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 25 01:15:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA20789 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:15:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA20784 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:15:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02486; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:13:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3632EBD7.717C0B6F@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:13:59 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-1015 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Allen Smith CC: David Greenman , Randy Bush , Marc Gutschner , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is 'xntpd' broken in -stable? References: <199810091927.MAA14061@implode.root.com> <9810241606.ZM2203@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Allen Smith wrote: > I've checked with Dave Mills on this issue, and there's an option (-x, > which is unfortunately not in the help files) in ntpd (as opposed to > xntpd, which is about as obsolete/nonsupported as FreeBSD-1.x) Posted this on another list...I disagree with your characterization as much as I'd like to see our version of xntpd updated. The xntpd branch is still maintained and updated, as recently as 4/27/98 for the most recent stable version, and August 10th for the most recent beta. The xntpd server supports version 3 of the protocol, ntpd is version 4. The two branches are relatively equivalent to our -Stable and -Current. At some point we should probably integrate ntp into -current, but the last time this topic came up (about 6 months ago) someone more knowledgeable than me was looking at both sets of sources and decided that ntp wasn't yet ready for prime time. For a long time I had hoped that someone would at least update to a more recent version of xntpd and then move that into the 2.2 branch, but that dream will die with 2.2.8. :-/ Our version of xntpd is prehistoric, and the vast numbers of bug fixes and algorithm improvements we're missing out on boggles the mind. And before anyone mentions it, I volunteered to make a port of the more recent version a while back and was told that it wouldn't be committed. If that has changed I'm still happy to do a port of the more recent version. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message