Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Fabrice wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> It seems that I get 1st january 2000 as a date from pool.ntp.org, using >> command >> >> /usr/sbin/netdate tcp pool.ntp.org >> >> Has anyone noticed anything? >> >> Fabrice > > > What is "netdate" and what O/S are you running it on? > > I'm sure someone would have noticed of any of the pool servers were off > by six years and eleven months. They are carefully monitored and > required to be within a few milliseconds of the correct time. > > FWIW NTP uses UDP rather than TCP! Probably this one: from : http://home.august.com/~akfullfo/netdate/README.txt
What it is ---------- Netdate makes use of the UDP "time" service provided by many Unix systems to query for the current time, and optionally set it on the local system. It is a pauper's alternative to NTP. What it does ------------ Netdate will set the local system time to within a second or two of the collective wisdom of one or more time servers. It uses a voting scheme to eliminate responses that are not in general agreement with the majority of the servers. As such, it really only works well in an environment where there are accessible machines that maintain a reliable timebase, probably via NTP. It works on a variety of Unix systems and is easy to compile and install. uer _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
