Re: [SLUG] Time servers sought
It's just that linuxconf uses rdate to do a clock check, which is 37 TCP. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com "...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!" On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, David Kempe wrote: Does any one know of a time server that listens on port 37 TCP I think things like NT PDC's do, however thats a bit broken really. Why can't you use NTP? get better software might well be your answer here :) Lots of NTP stuff including a list of public NTP servers are at: http://www.ntp.org The public servers are useful and precise, the CSIRO runs a bunch of them for australia, you just pick one in your timezone. Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Time servers sought
Does any one know of a time server that listens on port 37 TCP I think things like NT PDC's do, however thats a bit broken really. Why can't you use NTP? get better software might well be your answer here :) Lots of NTP stuff including a list of public NTP servers are at: http://www.ntp.org The public servers are useful and precise, the CSIRO runs a bunch of them for australia, you just pick one in your timezone. Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Time servers sought
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 03:41:28AM +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered: Does any one know of a time server that listens on port 37 TCP steven@broken:~$ grep time /etc/inetd.conf | tail -2 timestream tcp nowait rootinternal #time dgram udp waitrootinternal steven@broken:~$ grep 37 /etc/services time37/tcp timserver time37/udp timserver So, you have to assume that inetd handles time on it's own, as does almost any inetd clone. You do need to be in hosts.allow or hosts.equiv (depending on setup) for this work, though. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com "...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- Steve "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest." --Me -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Time servers sought
This one time, at band camp, David Kempe said: The public servers are useful and precise, the CSIRO runs a bunch of them for australia, you just pick one in your timezone. Timezone won't matter, they all give out UTC. That's what zoneinfo is for :) -- jamesw Always two there are; a Bastard, and a PFY. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Time servers sought
Does any one know of a time server that listens on port 37 TCP -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com "...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
