I wouldn't usually post software announcements to random user group
mailing lists unless it was particularly on-topic.
In this case, given that there seems to be a fair bit of interest in NTP
use on this list, I figured it's probably worth posting about.
The OpenBSD team have recently developed a replacement NTP daemon. The
nice things about this one are:
* it's simple
* doesn't run as root (thanks to privilege separation)
* was written with an eye for security
* it's free (BSD licensed)
Like what has been done with OpenBSD's SSH suite, a portability project
has been set up for the NTP daemon. The official website will be:
http://www.openntpd.org, but the latest snapshots of the portable code
are available at: http://www.zip.com.au/~dtucker/openntpd for now.
It's not feature complete, but OpenNTPd will already fulfill most user
requirements. Note that the daemon was only checked in to OpenBSD -HEAD
a couple of weeks ago, and the portable version is only a few days old.
Having said that, it's quite stable already.
Have fun.
Cheers,
-mjg
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