Re: [gentoo-user] What ntp/sntp client do people use?

[Mick]

On Tuesday, 10 December 2019 06:16:50 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 01:38:59AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
>
> > question... is "rdate" a drop-in substitute for "openrdate"?
>
>   Answering my own question... big fat NO.
>
> [i660][root][~] openrdate -s -n ca.pool.ntp.org (works fine)
>
> [i660][root][~] openrdate -s ca.pool.ntp.org (hangs and sits there)
>
> [i660][root][~] rdate -s ca.pool.ntp.org
> rdate: couldn't connect to host ca.pool.ntp.org: Connection refused
>
>   Apparently "openrdate -n" selects RFC2030 protocol.  Otherwise, it
> defaults to RFC868.  That appears to be rdate's only protocol.  So are
> there any public RFC868 servers?  Or are there any RFC2030 client
> programs other than openrdate?  What do people here use?

I no longer use rdate and SNTP.  I use chronyd which has no problem 
synchronising with various NTP servers and is suitable for systems which are 
online intermittently, like laptops.

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Regards,

Mick