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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