[ntp:questions] Reference Clock driver for getting time via "date" command over telnet?

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Wed Apr 21 20:06:08 UTC 2010


On 2010-04-21, unruh <unruh at wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

> On 2010-04-21, Movis <ben at internetaddress.com> wrote:
>
>> For reasons outside my control, I wish to configure ntpd on Red Hat
>> to use as the refclock a time obtained by repeatedly telnetting to a
>> remote machine and using the "date" command.

[snip]

>> Could anyone help me put something together which ntpd would accept
>> as a clock source?
>
> Why would they? Noone else in the world would be interested in this.
> If you are willing to put a few thousand dollars up front, I am sure
> someone would take it on for you.

Really?

Take a look at http://www.vanheusden.com/time/omnisync/

OmniSync is a driver for NTPd for people who are firewall-challenged. It
enables systems to sync time when port 123 (UDP) is blocked. It allows
you to sync against the daytime service (port 13 tcp/udp), time (port 37
tcp/udp), SNTS, ICMP, SNMP, precision time protocol (PTP - IEEE 1588),
(S)NTP via a socks5 proxy server, http and https (both also via proxy
server). It doesn't directly set the clock but uses NTPd for this as
this enables you to have multiple time sources as well as bad-chimer
detection etc.

-- 
Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/




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