Unruh wrote: > 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). > >
When you have a committee writing a document, it almost always takes longer! Robert A. Heinlein, once defined a committee as an "animal with six or more legs and no brain" or something close to that. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
