Brian Utterback <brian.utterb...@sun.com> writes:

> Unruh wrote:
>> David Woolley <da...@ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> Unruh wrote:
>>
>>>> xntp is ntpd 3 as far as I know. The current ntp is ntp 4 which has a
>>>> lot of improvements and changes. ntp4 is the only version which is
>>>> supported. 
>>
>>> I assume that Sun support the NTP V3 implementation that they supply, and
>>> wouldn't support the current one, installed lcoally.
>>
>> And exactly what Sun support do you expect to get? Sun is not an expert
>> on ntp.
>
> Well, as the Sun NTP lead engineer, let me just say "Hurrumph"!

Hi Brian!

I was expecting you to say something ;-)

>
> But more to the point, Solaris 8 is no longer supported. It is a perfect
> match, an ancient OS with an ancient NTP version.
>
> Really, why are you using Solaris 8? Use OpenSolaris. It comes with NTP
> 4.2.5p172 already installed and fully supported.

Really? I just saw Solaris 10 with ntp 3.5.93e (FAIR), but Sun tried
hard to hide the version string.

Ulrich

_______________________________________________
questions mailing list
questions@lists.ntp.org
https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Reply via email to