Roger Marquis writes: > > What are the reasons FreeBSD has not deprecated ntpd in favor of > openntpd?
While I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, the two simply aren't equivalent. As a conscious design choice, OpenNTPD trades off accuracy for code simplicity. It lacks support for NTP authentication, access controls, reference clocks, multicast/broadcast operation, or any kind of monitoring/reporting. OpenNTPD is probably closer to rdate than ntpd in terms of their relative capabilities. I'd rather we keep ntpd in base as a consequence. The only change I'd suggest would be to alter the default configuration such that all unauthorized access were blocked (i.e., set "restrict default ignore" and "restrict -6 default ignore"). Best wishes, Matthew -- "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne." _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
