Nicolas Williams wrote: >On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:26:45PM -0700, Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > > >>Will the changes to ntpd be offered back to www.ntp.org? >> >> > >Consensus on what to do may only just be emerging. I'd imagine that we >would contribute back any code changes, but shouldn't we first figure >out just what we'll do? > >Heck, we could do something fairly different that does not involve >modifying any NTP code. For example: > > Create a service that talks to the local NTP server to poll it for > its time and estimated error/offset to UTC (IIRC that's available in > NTP replies). > > Make this service be the one that others query for time status. > > [...]
Indeed, the above does need to be considered...and even the architecture of the proposed solution (a daemon to manage another daemon?) but... You managed to miss the point of my question completely... The NTP daemon is a 3rd party application. Local changes increase the difficulty of bringing in updates from the origin (www.ntp.org) if they aren't fed back. Darren
