From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 12 00:02:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13139 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:02:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beatrice.rutgers.edu (beatrice.rutgers.edu [165.230.209.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13134 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu) Received: (from easmith@localhost) by beatrice.rutgers.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id DAA02477; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 03:01:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Allen Smith" Message-Id: <9901120301.ZM2476@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 03:01:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: Studded "Re: Is 'xntpd' broken in -stable?" (Oct 25, 4:14am) References: <199810091927.MAA14061@implode.root.com> <9810241606.ZM2203@beatrice.rutgers.edu> <3632EBD7.717C0B6F@gorean.org> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: Studded Subject: Re: Is 'xntpd' broken in -stable? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Oct 25, 4:14am, Studded (possibly) wrote: Sorry about the delay... > 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) I apologize for exaggerating. It's more like FreeBSD-2.1. > 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. Well... currently, Dave Mills has stated that they aren't maintaining xntpd any longer; any updates are through patches they've accepted, but have not necessarily done testing on. ntpd-4.0.91 appears sufficiently stable that they're going to make it into ntpd-4.1 and an official 'release' pretty soon. -Allen -- Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message