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Bug ID 6580659
Synopsis update to NTP 4
State 11-Closed:Duplicate (Closed)
Category:Subcategory network:ntp
Keywords
Responsible Engineer Brian Utterback
Reported Against
Duplicate Of 4669914
Introduced In
Commit to Fix
Fixed In
Release Fixed
Related Bugs 6316341
Submit Date 13-July-2007
Last Update Date 3-December-2008
Description
Solaris should be updated to have NTP 4, particularly for Autokey (public
key based security).

Solaris Kerberos and other things could benefit from this.
Work Around
Download and compile the source from http://www.ntp.org/
Build as follows in the top-level source directory:
	./configure
	make
	make install
The daemon installs in /usr/local/bin/ntpd
It needs a init.d script or a SMF service to start automatically.
The old Solaris NTP 3 daemon must be disabled (/usr/lib/inet/xntpd, svc:/network/ntp:default)
To start, type something like:
	/usr/local/bin/ntpd -g -q -c /etc/inet/ntp.conf
	priocntl -e -c RT /usr/local/bin/ntpd -c /etc/inet/ntp.conf

Unsupported, pre-built third-party packages for NTP 4 are available from a few locations.
Comments
Update to NTP 4 would also add IPv6 functionality.  NTP 3 is not IPv6-aware.  Supposely Solaris is "IPv6 Ready Phase II":
http://www.ipv6ready.org/logo_db/logo_search2.php?logoid_number=01-000360
http://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/ipv6/logoholders.php

Yet a major daemon (NTPD) does not have this capability.
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