Lockon wrote: > Hi, I would appreciate if someone could tell me the reason to use the > freeware ntpd rather than xntpd that is built into Solaris 8. I have > searched but I can find no compelling argument.
xntpd in Solaris is an older version of the freeware ntpd. I'm not sure about this case, but, whilst strictly speaking, xntpd refers to the obsolete, version 3, of the freeware ntpd, some vendors, possibly Sun, thought they would confuse people less by keeping the old name. In reality it causes great confusion. The reason for using a current version, rather the old, or very old snapshot, is basically less bugs and better algorithms. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
