[OpenAFS-devel] Re: openafs patches for solaris 8

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> I'm afraid I must disagree with those who disagree.  NTP is not part of
> AFS; an NTP implementation has no place in the OpenAFS distribution. 
> Especially when what we're talking about is an ancient, decrepit NTPv2
> implementation.  To release such a thing and (implicitly) encoourage its
> use would be a great disservice to the Internet community at large, not to
> mention users of OpenAFS -- many NTP servers no longer even speak the v2
> protocol.
> 
> I also must insist that if the OpenAFS distribution continues to contain
> an NTP implementation, that it at least not contain configuration files
> which mention my timeservers....

Ditto.  In the beginning, AFS *had* to ship an ntp, because it wasn't quite 
ubiquitous.  Not so any longer.