From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 24 21:26:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA13088 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13082 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA04359; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 04:26:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 04:26:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timedc, "ftp.apple.com will not tell us the date" In-Reply-To: <199707250224.VAA06098@nexgen.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > timedc> c ftp.apple.com > ftp.apple.com will not tell us the date > time on ftp04.apple.com is 356793 ms. behind time on nexgen.hiwaay.net > timedc> c ftp.sgi.com > time on ftp.sgi.com is 34 ms. behind time on nexgen.hiwaay.net > > Why is it timedc insists a host will not tell it the date, then actually > reports it. Except: if the remote host is running SGI Irix, all is fine. > Same result from SGI to non-SGI host as shown above for FreeBSD to non-SGI. Just a guess, but 'ftp.apple.com' is simply used in a cluster lookup to multiple IP addresses, and is not actually an a-name for any specific IP, where ftp.cgi.com IS. Perhaps timedc is being a little more pedantic than it should about what address you are giving it? -Brandon Gillespie