ntpdate behavior changes between 4.x, 5.x and CURRENT

[Doug White]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is the output of ntpdate on a 4.11 machine:
> alpha# ntpdate -b time-b.nist.gov > /dev/null
> alpha#

ntpd 4.1.0

> The following is output of ntpdate on a 5.3-stable machine:
> vnode# ntpdate -b time-b.nist.gov > /dev/null
> host found : time-b.nist.gov
> vnode#

ntpd 4.1.1a

> The following is the output of ntpdate on a CURRENT machine:
> bling# ntpdate -b time-b.nist.gov > /dev/null
> bling#

ntpd 4.2.0 + patch to suppress those messages, which was obtained from the
upstream code.

So the answer is "Because the vendor put it there, and we hid it again in
-CURRENT."

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