On Tuesday, 10 December 2019 06:16:50 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 01:38:59AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > > > question... is "rdate" a drop-in substitute for "openrdate"? > > Answering my own question... big fat NO. > > [i660][root][~] openrdate -s -n ca.pool.ntp.org (works fine) > > [i660][root][~] openrdate -s ca.pool.ntp.org (hangs and sits there) > > [i660][root][~] rdate -s ca.pool.ntp.org > rdate: couldn't connect to host ca.pool.ntp.org: Connection refused > > Apparently "openrdate -n" selects RFC2030 protocol. Otherwise, it > defaults to RFC868. That appears to be rdate's only protocol. So are > there any public RFC868 servers? Or are there any RFC2030 client > programs other than openrdate? What do people here use?
I no longer use rdate and SNTP. I use chronyd which has no problem synchronising with various NTP servers and is suitable for systems which are online intermittently, like laptops. -- Regards, Mick
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