Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:31:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ntpdate broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950831142854.7543I-100000@itsdsv1.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <9508311822.AA04815@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Garrett A. Wollman wrote:
> <<On Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:35:28 -0400 (EDT), Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> said:
>
> > I give the command ntpdate nic.near.net (a local stratum 2 server),
> > I get the following:
> > 31 Aug 13:34:12 ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization found
>
> nic.near.net is still running the ancient version 2 ntp code.
> (Shouldn't that be `nic.ner.bbnplanet.com' or some such nonsense?)
> You need to use more up-to-date servers or the `-o' flag to tell
> ntpdate that it should speak the old protocol.
>
> -GAWollman
I've tried that, but ntpdate from 2.0.5-RELEASE doesn't accept the -o
option! I've taken a quick look at the code, and the -o option IS
present, but it's apparantly broken.
Anyone know what the problem is?
thanks,
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