From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 10:15:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEB037B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f74HFBa09727; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:15:11 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdate:: which knob... Message-ID: <20010804101511.A9601@tao.thought.org> References: <200108040431.f744VO901409@tao.thought.org> <44bslw3qre.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <44bslw3qre.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>; from lowell@world.std.com on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:21:09AM -0400 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:21:09AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > kline@tao.thought.org (Gary Kline) writes: > > > I'm running ntpd on my DNS server and wamt to sync up my inside platform. > > rdate, pointed at fubar gives me the following socket error:: > > > > rdate -p fubar.thought.org > > rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused > > > > Which knob do I turn in inetd to let rdate thru? Is it ``nntp''? > > I ought to know this... . > > 'time' > But if you're already using ntp to *get* the time on the DNS server, > I'd recommend using that to *give* the time to your inside machine as > well. > How? My DNS server gets its time from a nearby timeserver. I was thinking of sychronizing my inside server(s) by using simply rdate cron'd every N minutes. How can I tell ``fubar'' to give its corrected timestamp to other machines behind my firewall? gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message