Hm, the first two servers I tried upon manually issuing the hostbyname refused to accept the connection. Maybe I'll stick with time-a.nist.gov. I wish someone ran an internal timeserver that supported daytime. Haven't found one yet from amongst the likely candidates. -- bc
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Bob Cronin <[email protected]> wrote: > I need two separate pipe invocations for that? > -- > bc > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jack Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bob Cronin wrote: >> >>> Hm, so trying to be a good citizen, I use, e.g., 0.us.pool.ntp.org on >>> that >>> tcpclient invocation and get this somewhat baffling response: >>> >>> >> Anyway, the quick fix for what you are doing is use a >> >> HOSTBYNAME Resolves a domain or host name into an IP (internet >> protocol) address. >> >> stage and use the result as the address tcpclient stage. >> >> >> -- >> Jack J. Woehr # «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I >> find >> http://www.well.com/~jax <http://www.well.com/%7Ejax> # a thing,' said >> the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or >> http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.'» - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in >> Wonderland_ >> > >
