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Re: NTP versions in production use?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Milhollan)
Sun Jul 12 11:35:46 2015
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 08:35:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Milhollan <mlm@pixelgate.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Harlan Stenn wrote:
>I'm kinda stunned that folks are running such ancient
>versions of NTP.
This is not surprising at all, nor should you be surprised to find xntp3
still in use because of the even older software on decrepit but still
functional hardware. I.e., in addition to the issues Stephen Satchell
mentioned as to why vendors might not be keeping up, users may have
similar needs keeping them from using the latest releases of device
software. And then there are those that never even check for updates so
long as their device keeps them happy.
/mark
