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To: Bryan Ogawa at Work <bogawa@netvoyage.net>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: fingerd 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:04:05 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:17:13 +0100
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Bryan Ogawa at Work wrote in message ID
<Pine.NEB.3.92.960416110122.8254E-100000@digital.netvoyage.net>:
> news# telnet netvoyage.net 13
> Trying 205.162.154.10...
> Connected to netvoyage.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Tue Apr 16 11:01:04 1996
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> news#

> I dunno if it's required, but most of the time, port 13 seems to deliver
> localtime...

gary@palmer:~> grep daytime /etc/services
daytime          13/tcp
daytime          13/udp

gary@palmer:~> grep daytime /etc/inetd.conf
daytime        stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal
daytime        dgram   udp     wait    root    internal

It's a fairly standard service on UN*X machines, tho some people
disable it.

Gary