Joseph Gwinn <[email protected]> writes: >In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Danny Mayer) >wrote:
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> > Joseph Gwinn wrote: >> >> Is NTP v4 proven to run on Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9 Generic May 2002)? >> > >> > Proven? Please define that! It works for me. YMMV! >> >> NTP v4 builds on most versions of Solaris. If for some reason it does >> not build, Harlan can help with that since he's the build master. We >> have Solaris boxes in the build farm. >Good to know. >What's the story for IBM's AIX? >> > Version 3 is AT LEAST six years old. V4.something is current. Vendors >> > are still shipping V3 because the RFC for V4 has not yet been formally >> > adopted. Or, if it has been adopted, the adoption is extremely recent. >> > >> >> The RFC has not yet been published but it's really close. >I have read at least one draft. The fact that it isn't yet a RFC is not >a problem. That 5 years after version 3 has been dropped there is still no Request for Comments (which is what RFC means) is a problem. An RFC is not supposed to be the Final Word. (but people do tend to treat them as such). _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
