ntpd replacement (Was: Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent)

[Joe Holden]

On 24/02/2014 11:18, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Joe Holden on Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:13:23AM +0000:
>> hm, I can't say I have noticed this as being a problem where I've
>> used it, are there any scenarios where this is a showstopper?
>
> Non-support for auth is a concern, lack of NTPv4 protocol support is another.  Base ntpd also include SNTP which is a lightweight NTPv3 client.
>
I suspect if you can't be reasonably sure about the integrity of your 
network traffic you have other problems anyway... one can run ntpd -s to 
get a similar function to ntpdate/sntp.

But again, for 99% of installs as a client, auth and/or ntpv4 doesn't 
matter and much like sendmail/dma, one can always install ntp.org from 
ports if they require authentication (I've never seen it used).