* Phil Pennock <[email protected]> [2012-03-04 13:23]: > On 2012-03-03 at 12:24 +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Phil Pennock <[email protected]> [2012-03-02 16:32]: > > > A brief skim of the source (4.6p1) suggests that OpenNTPd passes on > > well, 4.6 is ancient. unfortunately nobody maintains the portable atm. > > that said, otoh there we no changes regarding leap seconds afterwards. > I've created a git repo and shoved it to github (since it's free and > more reliable than any single box I have available to throw at this, and > someone else is paid to maintain security updates). > > https://github.com/syscomet/openntpd
please note that it takes a bit more for a new portable release, namely, at least tests on the major platforms. > The current CVS of ntpd was imported to the initial branch "openbsd" and > I branched "master" from that. I then pulled in the imsg stuff from > current OpenBSD and then went through the FreeBSD Ports packages, > applying the changes which seemed sane (almost all of them). Only > *incompatibility* with upstream is storing drift information as parts > per million, for compatibility with reference ntpd. this is an inacceptable difference between a portable and the native one. also, I'd be interested what the other changes are. > I'm thinking of in-memory state to track if we did see the leap-second > from that server, and keep it for two days, and lose the state if > someone restarts ntpd, so that we then need to rely upon normal voting > rules. seems sane. -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
