Roger Marquis wrote:> >> What are the reasons FreeBSD has not deprecated ntpd in favor of
> >> openntpd?
> >
> > While I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, the two simply
aren't
> > equivalent. As a conscious design choice, OpenNTPD trades off
accuracy
> > for code simplicity.
>
> IIRC openntpd is accurate down to ~100ms. Ntpd does have a lot of
> code dedicated to additional accuracy but this is exactly the security
> trade-off I want to avoid. Who needs millisecond accuracy anyway?
AMD + NFS makes on a LAN. 1/10 second seems insufficient.
( Though one could run a faster less secure NTP on a local LAN
behind a firewall, & a slower more secure NTP on a WAN,
(so a FreeBSD gate would need both NTPs ) ).
Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.eu/jhs/
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