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Nist: timeserver client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Thu Aug 10 15:37:09 1995
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 17:30:36 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: "Frank B. Brokken" <frank@suffix.icce.rug.nl>
Subject: Nist: timeserver client
Reply-To: frank@suffix.icce.rug.nl
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Nist timeserver client for Linux, release 1.01
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We just uploaded to ftp.icce.rug.nl (directory pub/unix), sunsite.unc.edu
and tsx-11.mit.edu the latest release of our timeserver client 'nist'
version 1.01.
The National Institute of Standards (NIS) provides an internet timeserver,
which can be interrogated for the current (Universal Coordinated) time.
The nist client program does precisely that. The received time can be used to
update the system's time. However, Linux systems support on tcp port 13 also a
timeserver facility. This facility can be interrogated by nist as well.
Consequently, in a group of closely cooperating computers it provides a means
of synchronizing their system times: one computer retrieves the NIS-time, the
other computers synchronize their time with the one who interrogated the NIS
timeserver.
The nist program assumes the availability of a tcp-supporting network, such as
the internet. This implies that nist can also be used over SLIP or PPP based
modemconnections.
With the distribution documentation about the program and its installation is
provided. The documentation can also be retrieved from ftp.icce.rug.nl,
directory /pub/http, or it can be inspected at our WWW server
http://www.icce.rug.nl
Questions or comments about nist should be directed to:
Frank B. Brokken: frank@icce.rug.nl
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