On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

> ...and timed has the advantage over
> xntpd that it's "configure-less", you just need to turn it on if
> there's a local timed master available.

I was under the impression that, if configured to follow a multicast
source, xntpd could do the same thing. I've never mucked with it
enough to get this to work, but including such a config file as
the default /etc/ntp.conf might be a good idea.

cjs

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