Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:36:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> Cc: Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Difference between xntpd and ntpd ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908271134590.72558-100000@dt010nb9.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <19990827101626.C9827@sr.se>
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 09:14:27AM +0200, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > > Hi .. > > > > What is the difference between ntpd and xntpd ?? > > > > I downloaded ntp-4.0.97a.tar.gz but saw there was no xntpd included, > > only ntpd ?? > > My interpretation of this, when I ran into it, was that they simply > decided to give it IMHO the more appropriate name ntpd ERrr... no. That is not the case. :) NTP is a (still partly experimental) implementation of version 4 of the protocol, XNTPD is version 3. Full details are available at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/. Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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