Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:06:56 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: should we update xntp in the base system to newest ntp version ? Message-ID: <354F8D80.327FA42B@san.rr.com> References: <19980505175215.A3650@klemm.gtn.com>
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Andreas Klemm wrote: > > The version we have is based on ntp 3.4e. > Does somebody know, if there is a demand to upgrade xntpd ? Yes, yes, 1,000 times yes. I've only asked for this about that number of times. :) The reaons for the upgrade being desirable include several bug fixes, *vastly* improved efficiency and several new features. > Why is the newest version only called ntp ? The ntp stuff is for the Network Time Protocol Version 4, whereas xntpd is NTP version 3. > Is ntp-4 export restricted, since there are older export only versions ? > Should the new version be imported into /contrib, if we want to upgrade ? Both xntpd and ntp come with DES by default, the -export versions of both usually appear shortly after the newest release. Failing that, my understanding is that it's not tough to delete the DES stuff from the source. There are several factors regarding the contrib'ification. First, xntpd 3-5.93a should be contrib'ified for current and once it's stable (which shouldn't take long at all) that version should be backported to -Stable. There are several reasons. As has already been commented on, the NTP 4 stuff is a bit, shall we say tempermental. The NTP 3 stuff however is rock solid, and .93a is a huge improvement in that it compiles 99% clean with only one tiny warning even with -Wall defined. Also, once the xntpd stuff is contrib'ified upgrading to NTP 4 at some point in the future will be trivial. For now a port of NTP 4 is a good thing. The other exciting feature of the newest versions of (x)ntpd is that they've gone from a man page format to an html format for all documentation. I'm not sure how y'all would like to deal with that, however I would be willing to assist with updating the man pages we have to go with the new stuff. I would also be willing to help with other issues related to bringing the update in as needed. I've done a lot of research on NTP and have deployed a world-wide time server network including a lot of freebsd servers so this is a topic near to my heart. :) Glad it's getting noticed, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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