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

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> [2006-08-19 16:47]:
> Seems this could be worked around easily by just retrying a few
> times if that error is returned (until it is fixed).

Yes.

> Is there a time-out when it really cannot connect to a server?

Yes, that seems to work.

> Installations are rare enough that just using a fixed address also seems 
> an option. You could even add one or two alternates in case the first is 
> down for some reason.

We should definitely use a .debian.org alias which we can change.
Linksys (or someone) got really bad PR when they hard-coded the value
and used a server they shouldn't have used.

> We mainly need to determine how we are going to use rdate:
> - for all installations;
> - only for some (sub)arches like nlsu;
> - only if difference between system date/time and rdate date/time is
>   greater than x.

I don't know if we can do the latter in the current form or the
program.  However, given that the program is quite small it should be
trivial to adapt it to our needs, as Rick Thomas suggested.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
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