On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:36:36PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > * Anirban Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-21 04:33]:
> > > On 2008-11-21, Don Hiatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I was looking at http://openntpd.org/ for the latest Portable
> > > > OpenBSD an saw that it is at 3.9p1 while the non-portable is
> > > > at 4.3. A colleague of mine is tired of fighting with ntpd.org's
> > > > ntpd server so I suggested OpenNTPD. Is there a newer version
> > > > of the Portable OpenNTPD or is 3.9p1 the latest?
> > >
> > > >That's the latest portable version, but the OpenBSD one has
> > > >since been improved.
> > >
> > > I am wondering if any work is currently underway to port the
latest
> > > OpenNTPD to other platforms? Looks like there has been lot of good
work
> > > in OpenNTPD since version 3.9. It would be really nice to have it
for
> > > other platforms as well.
> >
> > not as far as I am aware. which is a pity.

> Robert Nagy did a bunch of work pulling in much of the recent changes.
> I put up a snapshot[1] a while back with these, but there's been no
> release.

> There's more work to be done, and some of it is going to be nontrivial
> to port (eg sensors, adjtime(NULL, olddelta) returning the remaining
> offset) and I have been busy with other things and slacking in this
> department.

> [1] http://www.zip.com.au/~dtucker/openntpd/snapshot/


Thanks a lot. This is very useful. Does your snapshot tarballs compile
under, say Linux? I will try them nevertheless. Meanwhile it will be
really nice to have a complete release of the portable version with all
the latest changes pulled in. I have been digging into doing this for a
while, but the sensor stuff is really turning out to be a good
challenge.

Ani

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