On 18/04/06 03:57, E Frank Ball wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:10:51PM -0700, John Pettitt wrote: > } > } Is there any expectation that a pool server will server time on TCP port > } 37 ? I'm seeing lots of attempts on my boxes which I think are pool > } related - maybe another badly written client out there .... > > 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, as soon as I have time I'll be making my server return 1999-12-31 23:59:59 to time queries. -- Simon Arlott
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