John,
On Friday 03 September 2004 09:54, John wrote:
It's SuSEFirewall(what about in that case?)
Is xntpd-4.1.1 bug free or not?
Please don't take this as flip, but the science of and technology of
computing do not allow the creation of bug-free software.
If you're curious about whether there are known bugs, the best place to
look is in the bug-tracking repository of the project that produces that
software. In this case, that's http://bugzilla.ntp.org/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=4.1.2>. This page
mentions one fix relative to 4.1.1, albeit a release candidate: "resolver
hangs under HP-UX 11.0, 4.1.1c-rc3". This probably means there are no
known or extant bugs in that release.
But to illustrate one way in which my initial comment about the
impossibility of bug-free software might obtain, consider that while the
NTP project may know of no bugs (i.e., no bugs have been reported or
those that have are not really bugs in the NTP software), the software
may still malfunction in a particular context or setting (e.g., under a
particular build or SuSE Linux or when used in conjunction with some
other piece of software). Is that a bug in NTP? Maybe yes, maybe no. And
even if you, I, the authors and everyone on planet Earth decides it is
not an NTP bug, it could still end up being fixed by changing the NTP
source code!
My SuSE 9.1 distribution is currently running the xntp package 4.2.0a-23.
There appear to be 23 bugs recorded against this release (http://bugzilla.ntp.org/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=4.2.0>), of which
all but two are already fixed. Of those two, one is currently being
fixed.
Randall Schulz