Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:37:53PM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:
> > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[..]

> > Apparently XNTP doesn't handle leap seconds correctly
> 
> You mean xntpd (a software package, not a protocol)

Yeah typo

> > <http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html>
> > and DBJ has, surprise surprise, his own replacement...
> 
> DJB.
> 
> But yeah, I'm not surprised. The replacement I'd actually go for, if I were
> going for a replacement is Nick Maclaren's msntpd, as Nick is just as
> concerned about correctness (if not more so) as DJB, but works to a
> portable subset of C, and you don't have to have the rest of the system
> covered in "alternative" ways of doing things.

What's non-portable about djbware?  I have had no problems compiling
on a wide range of unix systems.  Also you don't you have to use the
"alternative" ways of doing things.

Do you have a link for msntpd? (google fails to find anything).

> > BTW the OpenBSD man page for timed(0) says
> > "If two or more time daemons, whether timed, NTP, try to adjust the same
> > clock, temporal chaos will result."
> > Don't cross the beams!
> 
> timed != *ntpd

Yes I know.  It was intended as a joke (hence the Ghostbuster's reference)

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