From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 11:39:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt010nb9.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B5C155C9 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:39:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt010nb9.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA72802; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:36:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:36:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt010nb9.san.rr.com To: Gunnar Flygt Cc: Reinier Bezuidenhout , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Difference between xntpd and ntpd ? In-Reply-To: <19990827101626.C9827@sr.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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