On Tuesday 20 September 2005 14.26, Thilo Bangert wrote: > Hi, > > so what is the official policy of running a pool.ntp.org server with > OpenNTPD?
I have successfully avoided to formulate an official policy :-/ > I have been looking around and have been seeing hints of problems, but > not a real _DON'T-DO-THAT!_ - (to me anyway) it is unclear whether the > news item from 2004-09-07 is still valid. The original problem (old versions of openntp did not report stratum correctly) has been fixed. BUT - A piece of software which handles a critical bit of a protocol (such as the stratum in ntp) in such a sloppy way does not get any brownie points from me. - OpenNTP camp followers have demanded that I correct the information in the mailing list *archive* (!) in quite an aggressive way, calling it misinformation despite the fact that the information was perfectly valid at the time of publication. Personally, I haven't looked at openntp at all. But I guess it wouldn't hurt if somebody did and could confirm whether it is any better than ntpdate called from cron. A third point is that openntpd doesn't afaik support the 'ntpq -p' and 'ntpq -c rv' type requests. For a pool.ntp.org server, I find these very useful to get an idea of whether the clock is configured in a sensible way. greetings -- vbi -- "I'd love to go out with you, but my favorite commercial is on TV."
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