Re: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment??

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 11:51:44 EST


Jonathan Walther wrote:
> Thank you for the info. I was referring to the service on port 37 tho.
> It used to be a pain to set up ntp, hence my use of "rdate". Which
> meant I had to find a machine running the "time" server, for which
> I wasn't able to find any list of publicly available servers.

ntp comes with "ntpdate" which is like rdate but perhaps a bit better.
It talks to NTP servers which is much better if that's what you've got.

> I can only assume if someone is running the "time" server they intend
> for others to use it. Wouldn't you agree?

:-) That's a bit like assuming if someone is running the "sendmail" mail
relay server they intend for others to use it.

-- Jamie

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