11/11/2009 is not 8 years ago. That "better link" is exactly what I was referring to.
Portable OpenNTPD 3.9p1 released May 14, 2006.
It would be good if you could explain what I am missing. If there are more recent Linux releases and the information on the Redhat bug tracker is incorrect I would like to know. I'd rather be running OpenNTPD than ntpd.