NTP version 4 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (5900-3073, March 2013)

2 What is new in NTP v4 ?
NTP v4 includes new binaries, utilities, and command options.
NTP v4 includes the following new binaries, which are available at /usr/sbin location.
• ntpd
• ntpdc
• ntpdate
• ntpq
• ntptrace
• ntp-keygen
NTP v4 includes the following new utilities:
• IPv6 Support
• Quicker Startup of NTP daemon
• Interleaved Mode
• Huff-n'-Puff Filter
• Orphan Mode
• Kiss-o'-Death (KoD) packet
• Burst Options
• OpenSSL cryptographic library
• Autokey Public Key Authentication
• Automatic NTP Configuration schemes
Broadcast/Multicast scheme◦
◦ Manycast scheme
◦ Server Pool scheme
NTP v4 includes the following new command options:
• Configuration commands
• Command options
• Auxiliary commands
• Authentication options
• Monitoring options
• Access control options
• Miscellaneous options
Binaries
This section describes the new binaries that are available in NTP v4.
ntpd
In NTP v4, the NTP daemon is ntpd, not xntpd as in NTP v3. The ntpd binary is an operating
system daemon, which sets and maintains the system time-of-day in sync with the Internet standard
time servers.
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