Thank you for the detailed explanation! To get my feet wet, I may like to start with the built-in version; however, will the version 3 protocol client communicate with the current servers out there (presumably they all run protocol version 4)?
Thanks Sunil On Jul 27, 4:59 pm, Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009-07-27, Lockon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I would appreciate if someone could tell me the reason to use the > > freeware ntpd > > What you are referring to as the "freeware ntpd" is actually The NTP > Reference Implementation from The NTP Project at the University of > Delaware. This is the original, and definitive, implementation of NTP. > > The NTP Project home-page ishttp://www.ntp.org/ > > > rather than xntpd that is built into Solaris 8. > > The "xntpd" in Solaris 8 is based on NTP 3.x from The NTP Project and > uses NTP Protocol version 3. This version of NTP is no longer maintained by > The NTP Project. > > The current releases of The NTP Reference Implementation utilize NTP > Protocol version 4 and include many refinements, enhancements, and bug > fixes not present in earlier releases. The current releases are: > > * Stable: ntp-4.2.4p7 2009/05/18 > * Development: ntp-dev-4.2.5p195 2009/07/27 > > -- > Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> > NTP Public Services Project -http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
