[gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

[gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

[Pacho Ramos]

Reading:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040

I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/ntp
simply because I have always being using it, also looks like we don't
have any virtual that could point me about the "preferred" provider on
Gentoo. Do you know that?

Thanks a lot

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

[Pacho Ramos]

El lun, 11-11-2013 a las 22:13 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> Reading:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040
> 
> I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/ntp
> simply because I have always being using it, also looks like we don't
> have any virtual that could point me about the "preferred" provider on
> Gentoo. Do you know that?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> 
> 

Any thoughts? :/

[gentoo-dev] Re: About preferred ntp provider

[Michael Palimaka]

On 12/11/2013 08:13, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> Reading:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040
>
> I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/ntp
> simply because I have always being using it, also looks like we don't
> have any virtual that could point me about the "preferred" provider on
> Gentoo. Do you know that?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>
>
I am not aware of any Gentoo preference. In the absence of such, I 
suppose net-misc/ntp should default simply because it's the 
original/official. (That said, Fedora does make a compelling case for 
chrony)

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

[Peter Stuge]

Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El lun, 11-11-2013 a las 22:13 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> > Reading:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040
> > 
> > I don't know what should be preferred
> 
> Any thoughts? :/

I like OpenNTPD.


//Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:
> I like OpenNTPD.

Me too, but mostly because of the server. I don't really care/know
about client differences.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

[Michał Górny]

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Dnia 2013-11-11, o godz. 22:13:26
Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/ntp
> simply because I have always being using it, also looks like we don't
> have any virtual that could point me about the "preferred" provider on
> Gentoo. Do you know that?

Let's try to compare what we have:

Licenses:

  chrony: GPL-2
  openntpd: BSD GPL-2
  ntp: HPND BSD ISC

Deps:

  chrony: optional libcap & readline
  openntpd: optional openssl
  ntp: ncurses, readline, a number of optional (openssl, snmp, avahi...)

Looking at the above, 'ntp' would be my last choice. However, those
comparisons fit more for choosing what to install. Once installed, I
don't think any particular ordering matters...

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Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] About preferred ntp provider

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> El lun, 11-11-2013 a las 22:13 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
>> Reading:
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489044
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489040
>>
>> I don't know what should be preferred, personally I use net-misc/ntp
>> simply because I have always being using it, also looks like we don't
>> have any virtual that could point me about the "preferred" provider on
>> Gentoo. Do you know that?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>>
>>
>>
>
> Any thoughts? :/
>
>

Here is my ranked list.

1. chrony: Seems to be the most flexible for systems that are not on 24/7.
2. ntpd: Reference implementation, and works pretty well for me.
3. openntpd: At a glance, the Linux port seems to be a little out of
date. On the other hand, NTP really doesn't change all that much.

An alternative to actively making a decision here would be to simply
give them all the same "priority". This would make effectively give
preference to the ones which sort first based on their name, and would
actually yield the same list I gave above. ^_^