David Woolley wrote:
According to the man pages peer has the following description:
Your man pages claim conformance to version 3 of the protocol, and the
RFC, but you are clearly running version 4 of the protocol, for which there
is not yet a public specification. Your supplier has probably simply retained
the man pages from the previous version. (Personally I strongly disagree
with the policy of dropping man pages, but Dave Mills is a rather strong
willed person.)
"This command specifies that the local server is to operate in
"symmetric active" mode with the remote server host_address. In this
mode,the local server can be synchronized to the remote server and, in
addition, the remote server can be synchronized by the local server.
This is useful in a network of servers where, depending on various
failure scenarios, either the local or remote server host may be the
better source of time"
The latter paragraph is exactly what's in the HTML documentation included in
that version of ntpd (4.0.98a) by the project. However, I agree that requiring
every vendor to individualy transcribe the HTML-only documentation into the form
that users actually want to have it is an invitation to divergence.
-Tom
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