🚀 go-pugleaf

atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>  NTP version 1 is really old.  They should upgrade from using ntpd(8)
>to using xntpd(8) using the freely distributable sources available via
>anonymous ftp from /pub/ntp on louie.udel.edu (the official xntp3
>archive site).

Its hard for people who need the code to work as advertised to do
this. I'm one of those poor schlubs out there who actually needs to
use a particular machine's internal clock as a master because we don't
have a radio clock or a suitable direct internet connection --
instead, I sync certain machines every few hours to NIST by phone.
This isn't perfect, but getting my machines synced to each other is
more important than getting them to within milliseconds of real time;
a fiftieth of a second off the world (what I get in practice) is fine.
Unfortunately, xntp3 has a bug that prevents the local clock as time
source option from working, and no one out there seems to have a fix.
Thus, I can't use xntp3, in spite of the fact that I'd like to.

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