People are actively working on rdate again. Upstream has new features such as being able to talk to NTP/SNTP servers. We should update and stop shipping our own magic tarball. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openrdate/
See bug 8619 for the reason we have our own 'speshul' version. Hopefully, this problem has been properly addressed by openrdate.
Turns out Christos Zoulas is a member of the NetBSD core team. Openrdate is derived from the OpenBSD version of rdate. I don't think we have anything to worry about.
I went thru the code and it seems ok and it looks better than our rdate. But it lacks few features that our rdate has (udp support) so I wrote a patch for that sent it to Christos and if he'll accept it, I'll switch to openrdate.
Did you get a response?
No, still no response from Christos.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Any updates on this? What will ship for F11?
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