ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:59 PM -0500 2004-08-31, W. D. wrote:

>  Do you have any idea how to get in touch with
>  whoever is the FreeBSD port maintainer for NTP?

	On a FreeBSD machine we use to help support the NTP Project, in 
/usr/ports/net/ntp, looking in the Makefile, I see:

		MAINTAINER=     cy at FreeBSD.org

>  It would be great to find out why it is done this way.

	It's a FreeBSD standard.  Frankly, it doesn't bother me at all.

>  Also, I'd like to find out if the port maintainer
>  could help update the NTP port so that this
>  broadcastclient problem could be solved with the
>  regular FreeBSD port, rather than having to do
>  everything manually.

	He will just tell you to update your port definition.  The port 
definition I have is for version 4.2.0, and is fully current with our 
latest release.


	Also note that 4.2.0 was recently integrated into the FreeBSD 5.* 
tree, so if you pick up one of the FreeBSD 5.3-BETA tarballs, that 
will bring you up to current.  This version may also be incorporated 
into the upcoming release of the 4.* tree, if that has not yet 
already happened.

	We have a pretty good relationship with the FreeBSD folks, and 
they tend to track things like ntpd pretty closely.

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