[ntp:hackers] ntpdate removal is coming

Jukka Ruohonen jruohonen at iki.fi
Mon Jul 18 05:26:37 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 03:29:36PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> I believe the problems you have described are in the past.  ntpdate
> was/is broken, and will not be fixed.  Our new tools seem to offer
> solutions for the identified use cases.  I understand that some folks
> will want to keep something called ntpdate around for their own reasons.

Does ntpd still listen on all interfaces? If yes, there is a reason for
keeping ntpdate, even if it is just for "own reasons".

- Jukka.


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