NTPD unable to adjust local clock

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Apr 6 10:08:29 PDT 2005


On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:44:33PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     After the release we are either going to have to go back to the ntpd 
>     we had before, or we are going to have to make some major changes to
>     OpenBSD's code.  The code looks clean enough that we can probably make
>     the required changes, but the work is going to be a bit too involved to
>     maintain it as a contrib and a patch set... we'd have to import the
>     code for real and maintain it in our tree.

No xntpd please. I'm much more willing to write the actual slew algorithm
for OpenNTPD, which already has all the network code, only the actual adjust
has to be improved. I'm also quite sure that Henning would include it in
OpenNTPD.

Joerg





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