ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Tue Aug 31 19:15:09 PDT 2004


At 06:37 PM 8/31/2004, W. D. wrote:
>At 17:16 8/31/2004, Harlan Stenn, wrote:
> >>At 14:57 8/31/2004, W. D., wrote:
> >>For some reason, I can't get to the UDel.edu FTP site.
> >>Do you happen to know why?
> >>
> >>ftp://ftp.udel.edu/pub/ntp/ntp4/
>
> >If you cannot use FTP, it is because there were Serious Hacking attempts
> >aimed at UDel from that netblock.
> >
> >You will have to use http instead.
> >
>
>Thanks, Harlan.  I tried using Lynx here:
>
>http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/
>
>Unfortunately, I can't seem to find where Lynx put the
>file after is was downloaded--if it even really
>downloaded it in the first place.

Make sure you pull the ntp-dev tarball and not the stable.

>If I download using Windows and burn it to a
>CD, would there be problems because the file date
>would be off?

What has the file time got to do with anything?

>Also, I am still waiting to hear back from Danny.
>I have a sneaking suspicion that the 2004 Aug. 20
>version does not have his broadcastclient fix in
>it.
>

I have no idea what that version is or where you got it.
The problem was fixed back in March.

Danny




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