Quoting Erik Christiansen ([email protected]): > Any specific reason for preferring it over the Debian ntp package? > (I guess familiarity is often a biggie.)
I'm actually considerably _more_ familiar with NTP Project's ntpd, as it's the reference implmentation. The openntpd.org (OpenBSD Foundation) 'Portable OpenNTPD' alternative is intriguing as it aims to reduce the attack surface as a network daemon, which other things being equal is A Good Thing. Hence, I'm considering its relative merits at the moment and am undecided. I was about to say that it's still early days for the OpenBSD Foundation's codebase, but am surprised to note, upon checking, that this is wrong: The project was launched well over a decade ago, and I'm merely behind the news. ;-> (I believe I finally noticed it courtesy of an LWN.net article about recurring NTP Project ntpd security problems, and remedies via alternative implementations.) > > And I personally feel much better running a real NTP implementation even > > on laptops. > > After removing networking start from the startup scripts, in favour of > manual networking start, for the few occasions when one is tethered? In my use case, I pretty much always have either wireless ethernet or wired ethernet at startup. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
