On 07/12/13 20:14, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > reassign 731594 openntpd > retitle 731594 Please make openntpd package priority standard > thanks > > On 7 December 2013 23:00, Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.na...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Bdale, >> >> thank you for your input! Using openntpd sounds very good. Who is the >> person to make the decision? >> > reassigning to openntpd package. Hi.
From the openntpd perspective, I think the PROs described are fair,
openntpd is extremely small on both, package size and memory footprint
(~2mb), and almost no dependences from base system.
On a personal note, without my openntpd maintainer hat on, I'm extremely
happy with it, I run it on every single server I've root on, 4 of them
members of pool.ntp.org.
It does what is says it does (now w/patches applied), it's simple but
powerful (It can act as servers as well commenting out a single line),
and it's almost imperceptible (except in the cases you have a flapping
networking connection, like a wireless network).
Remember openntpd is NOT an ISC's ntp replacement, it does not provide
all the functionalities the second does, but I think It does provide all
the required ones with a scope of a ntpdate replacement.
On the other hand, and I'm afraid this an extremely important downside
for openntpd, even though the OpenNTPd project is quite active, the
Portable branch, that is the openntpd software supposed to be used for
running on systems other than OpenBSD, is basically stalled on time.
I've tried to contact the branch responsible many many times with no
success.
More over, the current openntpd version present from Wheezy on are
running a set of patches that have been prepared back on 2008 by the
Portable Branch responsible (""upstream""), but never committed at
upstream software. This reflects the state of staleness upstream is.
I want to think I've tried to coordinate efforts with other relevant
OpenNTPd consumers (other distros) for requesting some assistance to the
OpenNTPd project, but I'm afraid that would be lying because I've not
find enough human power to achieve that.
I consider this thread is of much importance for the project, although
I'm afraid I might not be able to provide a fair judge on this as I
don't really know ISC's ntpd well enough to make a fair comparison.
Kurt, on the other hand, used to be maintainer of openntpd and he has
solid and deep knowledge on both ntp daemons.
I trust he would be able to provide a very fair technical advise for this.
Cheers,
Dererk
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