[32294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Thu Nov 16 15:30:40 2000
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:28:31 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On 11/16/00, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> I'm currently composing a note to a software house, which is asking for
> permission to list some of our NTP servers in their software's config files.
> Before I do that, is there any "standard" for ISP's for naming their
> hosts that provide time service on ports 13, 37, or 123? Even if it's
> a list of "AOL users should try 'time.aol.com' first" rules, that might
> be an improvement....
Many of them are named "time" or "clock," but then there's
historical sites like clepsydra....
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