Roger Marquis wrote: > >> What are the reasons FreeBSD has not deprecated ntpd in favor of > >> openntpd? > > > > While I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, the two simply aren't > > equivalent. As a conscious design choice, OpenNTPD trades off accuracy > > for code simplicity. > > IIRC openntpd is accurate down to ~100ms. Ntpd does have a lot of > code dedicated to additional accuracy but this is exactly the security > trade-off I want to avoid. Who needs millisecond accuracy anyway?
AMD + NFS makes on a LAN. 1/10 second seems insufficient. ( Though one could run a faster less secure NTP on a local LAN behind a firewall, & a slower more secure NTP on a WAN, (so a FreeBSD gate would need both NTPs ) ). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.eu/jhs/ Mail plain text, No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, MS.doc. Prefix old lines '> ' Reply below old, like play script. Break lines by 80. Let Brits in EU vote on Brexit https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112142 Lie to companies extorting personal data: Prevent abuse, loss & ID theft. _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
