"Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Unruh wrote: >> Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> Please remembere that I mentioned that ntpdate is broken and has been for a >>> long time. >> >> It would probably help if you said exactly how ntpdate is broken. It is >> obviously not broken so badly that it does not run. So what subtle issues >> are there about ntpdate >> >>
>I do not use ntpdate very often but, when I do, it DOES SEEM TO WORK! >It does not, however, offer the defenses against diseased servers that >ntpd does. You had better believe that there are servers out there and >responding to NTP queries that do not even know the correct YEAR!!!!! But with ntpdate, the server is under your control. So this is hardly something I would call "broken". Harlan insists that it is broken-- mentioned it twice-- but never said how and why it is broken. What he calls broken may be a feature other people never use. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
