On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:16:40PM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:
> Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:37:53PM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:
> > > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [..]
> > > Apparently XNTP doesn't handle leap seconds correctly
> > You mean xntpd (a software package, not a protocol)
> Yeah typo
> > > <http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html>
> > > and DBJ has, surprise surprise, his own replacement...
> > DJB.
> > 
> > But yeah, I'm not surprised. The replacement I'd actually go for, if I were
> > going for a replacement is Nick Maclaren's msntpd, as Nick is just as
> > concerned about correctness (if not more so) as DJB, but works to a
> > portable subset of C, and you don't have to have the rest of the system
> > covered in "alternative" ways of doing things.
> What's non-portable about djbware?  I have had no problems compiling

That it doesn't interoperate sensibly with anything else. see my other
post.

> on a wide range of unix systems.  Also you don't you have to use the
> "alternative" ways of doing things.

At the expense of vastly reduced functionality.

> Do you have a link for msntpd? (google fails to find anything).

http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_6439.html

MBM

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