[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#352610: Please create a udeb for ntpdate

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx.net> [2006-08-17 14:14]:
> Can I assume that the d-i group settled on using either rdate or a
> minimal sntp client rather than ntpdate?

I've tried rdate now.  Here are my observations:

 - It basically seems to work and is very small.

 - Somtimes rdate doesn't work, but this applies both to busybox and
   the stand-alone variant.  I get errors like "69.25.96.13 did not
   send the complete time" from time to time and when I try again it
   works (other people get this too, see #352777).  I don't know if
   that's a real problem with the rdate server (but I tried several),
   the protocol or the implementation(s).

 - Unlike normal rdate, busybox rdate needs the -s option to set the
   time.

 - I couldn't find something like pool.ntp.org, i.e. a generic name we
   can use behind which many servers can be found.
   http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm has a list of rdate servers but
   there's no alias for all of them.  We could create a
   rdate.debian.org (or .net) and ask the NIST people which servers we
   can add.

Opinions?
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Martin Michlmayr
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