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From: shaver@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Dave Shaver)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Internet "time servers" and UNIX timed
Keywords: timed, hp-ux, time server
Message-ID: <774@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 89 18:54:53 GMT
Reply-To: shaver@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Dave Shaver)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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I know that "network time servers" exist on the Internet.  Here's the
list I have:

		192.5.8.1            time
		128.9.2.129          time1 isi
		128.8.10.1           umd1 time2
		128.5.0.1            ford1 time3
		128.116.64.2         ncar time4

Now my question is how to use them.  How does one ask any of these
machines for the correct time?  On which IP port number and using what
protocol can I get the correct time?  Port numbers I know of: 13, 37,
and 525 (UNIX timed).  I know that you can just connet to port 13 and
read the time.  What is the best way of doing this?  Any help would be
appreciated.

My second problem is UNIX timed.  My goal is to get the "correct" time
from a time server and then pass it out on our LAN via timed.  We have
an HP 350 running HP-UX (System V/BSD "mix").  Has anyone ported
the 4.3 BSD timed to HP-UX or SYSV?  (This could be hard without
the adjtime(2) system call.)

Another option would be to use something other than timed.  Any other
comments or ideas are welcomed.

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