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To: John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
Cc: logue@engr.orst.edu (Steve Logue), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de,
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Subject: Re: xntp3-5.89.2 & FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA won't compile 
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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 05:55:21 -0500
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From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>
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The problem with "older" releases of xntpd are that they have many
serious bugs which affect how well they keep time between peers and how
they handle reference clocks.

The 3-5.x stuff does change frequently, however (although not as often
as I've seen lsof change!).

I'd say we're in late-beta with xntpd.  We'll be at gamma as soon as we
can find and fix the race condition some folks are seeing on some
platforms, with a production release soon after.  Even then, Dave Mills
doesn't think xntp4 is all that far off.

H