tlug: Time

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "FB" == "Frank Bennett" <bennett@example.com> writes:

    FB> There is a timed daemon on the new system, which I hooked up
    FB> for service in /etc/inetd.conf.  Sure enough, I now get a time
    FB> back from this machine when I rdate against it from the other
    FB> servers (running TL 3.0 at present).

I don't seem to have a timed installed on any of my Debian systems; in 
fact, I can't even seem to find a package which provides it.  But all
of my systems seem to give sensible responses to rdate inquiries.  Out 
of curiosity, I checked 133.6.33.1, and it's still giving exactly the
same date:  Mon Apr 28 01:25:08 1952.

According to the rdate manpage, RFC 868 is "usually implemented" in
inetd, not a separate server.  And in fact grepping /etc/inetd.conf
and /etc/services gives

daytime		stream	tcp	nowait	root	internal
#daytime	dgram	udp	wait	root	internal
time		stream	tcp	nowait	root	internal
#time		dgram	udp	wait	root	internal

daytime		13/tcp
daytime		13/udp
time		37/tcp		timserver
time		37/udp		timserver
timed		525/udp		timeserver

Are you sure you've got timed plugged in to the right service?  It
sure looks to me like it is a different protocol from rdate, and
probably what's happening is that the naive rdate protocol is trying
to interpret a magic number from timed as a date.

BTW, if you're still interested in CODA, 5.2.7 is definitely usable
(on i386 systems, for the first time since about 4.6.5 when I first
tried it).  5.3.1 is out, but I don't know how reliable it is.  And I
dunno if it works on Sparc, yet.

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