NTP daemon and Y2K issues
I noticed that -stable is running xntpd 3.4e and possible -current is the same (although I can't check at the moment). The following was sent to a sysadmin mailing list (SAGE-AU). --++ . | John Saunders - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED](EMail) | ,--_|\|- http://www.nlc.net.au/ (WWW) | / Oz \ |- 02-9489-4932 or 04-1822-3814 (Phone) | \_,--\_/ | NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS P/L - Supplying a professional, | v| and above all friendly, internet connection service. | ++ Just when you thought it was safe ... For those of you feeling quite happy running XNTP version 3.x, you might want to upgrade to the latest NTP (currently 4.0.97) to be squeaky clean with your Y2K team. There have been changes made to the source after the ATT Labs "Freeware Y2K Certification Project" had been at it. From the file NOTES.y2kfixes in the top level source directory: 1) Errors were found in improper use of tm_year within struct tm, calculations that did not support year 2000 as a leap year (it truly is, despite any unchanged comments remaining in the NTP source), and some incorrect date calculations, while not traditional Y2K errors, would break in the year 2000. 2) include/ntpd.h Added some definitions and documentation about the right way of doing things. Definitions used by most, if not all, of the Y2K repairs. Not huge changes, but there probably will be a problem. For those that just want to check the relevant files, you can check the online CVS repository at http://maccarony.ntp.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ntp/ Please note that the SAGE-AU mirror only has XNTP 3.x, so you will need to go further afield until NTP 4 is being mirrored. John Warburton To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, John Saunders wrote: I noticed that -stable is running xntpd 3.4e and possible -current is the I y2k-fixed xntpd in FreeBSD in January. Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html CVS log for src/usr.sbin/xntpd/parse/util/dcfd.c 1.6 Tue Jan 12 19:37:30 1999 UTC by danny CVS Tags: RELENG_3_2_PAO_BP, RELENG_3_2_0_RELEASE, RELENG_3_1_0_RELEASE, RELENG_3_BP, HEAD, RELENG_3, RELENG_3_2_PAO Diffs to 1.5 Fix leap year calculations, including 2000. The code was broken for all years! Reviewed by:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues
For your information: the patch supplied was not in xntpd-3.5f-3. So you might want to repatch after importing. Nick According to Harlan Stenn: Also, a *huge* number of bugfixes and improvements have been made to the NTP code since xntp3.4anything. I plan to upgrade CURRENT up to 4.0.97 soon. I don't run STABLE at all and we're too close to 3.3 to change anything in it. Maybe for 3.4. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #73: Sat Jul 31 15:36:05 CEST 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues
If you are saying that FreeBSD has patches to ntp that are missing from ntp4, please submit them to UDel. Don't bother sending patches that only fix problems with ntp3; ntp3 is no longer supported. ntp-4.1.0 should be available in a few weeks. I'm waiting for some portability patches to settle down, some minor NT cleanup, and perhaps some parse code cleanup before making the release. H To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues
I've submitted patches for 3, but the patch applies to the GPS input filters, so I assume they can be ported. If not, pitty. Nick On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Harlan Stenn wrote: If you are saying that FreeBSD has patches to ntp that are missing from ntp4, please submit them to UDel. Don't bother sending patches that only fix problems with ntp3; ntp3 is no longer supported. ntp-4.1.0 should be available in a few weeks. I'm waiting for some portability patches to settle down, some minor NT cleanup, and perhaps some parse code cleanup before making the release. H To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues
According to Harlan Stenn: Also, a *huge* number of bugfixes and improvements have been made to the NTP code since xntp3.4anything. I plan to upgrade CURRENT up to 4.0.97 soon. I don't run STABLE at all and we're too close to 3.3 to change anything in it. Maybe for 3.4. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #73: Sat Jul 31 15:36:05 CEST 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
