xntp3 refuses to talk from little-endian to big endian machines

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From: Ken Hornstein
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:29

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I have been trying to get xntp3 (the latest version from louie.udel.edu)
working on the following machines:

	Vax 11/750 	    - BSD 4.3
	DECstation 3100     - Ultrix 4.0
	DECstation 5000/240 - Ultrix 4.3

On all these machines, xntp3 has the same problem: it will only talk to
another xntp daemon that is running on one of these machines.  Xntpdc will
only talk to a daemon on one of these machines; when trying to talk to
another machine, it times out.  Xntpdc's on other machines cannot talk
to these daemons.  It _looks_ like there is a byte-order problem, but
I have not gone that far into the problem.  Does anyone else run xntpd on
a little endian machine?  If so, please let me know what you did to get it
to work!

--Ken

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Subject: xntp3 refuses to talk from little-endian to big endian machines
Date: 12 Jan 1993 14:29:50 GMT
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