[ntp:questions] Can ntpd act as an SNTP client?

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu Mar 3 13:58:27 UTC 2005


At 8:56 AM -0500 2005-03-03, mayer at gis.net wrote:

>  Yes, SNTP is a subset of NTP and uses the same protocol.

	The question is whether ntpd, as a client, can sync to a server 
that only implements the SNTP protocol.  My understanding was that 
was not possible, although the reverse is trivially easy.

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