On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:33:31AM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Karl Denninger  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > What does (someone) need to do to get this changed out/updated?  I can't
> > send it in as a port, since its part of the base package (setting
> > it up as a port would be pretty trivial from what I can see)
> 
> There already _is_ a port of it (net/ntp).  And there are hooks in
> /etc/rc.conf ("xntpd_program") to use the ports version instead of the
> one in the base system.
> 
> John

Thanks; I just updated /usr/src and saw the changes.

This has been broken for a *long* time - at least since the 4.0 branch
began.  Its definitely a kernel interface problem with the older code; 
while the adjtime call is being made its not happening and eventually
the code executes a "step" instead (which is a bad news; those should
basically never happen once xntpd settles down in a day or three after
a cold start)

It looks like ntpd (the new one) works correctly; I grabbed the latest
from the official site last night and by this morning the dispersion 
and offsets were stable.

Ntpd is the "official" code line now - the "x" line is considered deprecated
by the official maintainers, so if you're going to support the ntpd line in 
the base system the other(s) should probably be removed entirely.

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