On Tuesday 18 April 2006 09:57, Simon Arlott wrote: > On 18/04/06 03:57, E Frank Ball wrote:
> > There is no expectation that pool servers will have port 37/tcp "time" > > running, but several do, including my two. So run it or not, it's your > > choice, but if your in the pool people will try to connect to it. I > > changed /etc/identd.conf so that time runs as nobody instead of root - > > I don't know if it makes much difference but it can't hurt. 37/tcp > > "time" is used by the program "rdate". > > You're only making the problem worse by running the time service too, Which problem? abuse of ntp is a problem with something like 1% of pool.ntp.org users. I can't remember a port 37 problem being discussed so far. So far, the answer to any user question about port 37 has always been 'the project doesn't support it, use ntp', but that's about it. -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro
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