Re: [Sheflug] NTP (or pedantism)

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> /etc/services on my install of SuSE 9.2 lists 123/TCP as an NTP port.
> /etc/services on my install of OpenBSD 3.6 doesn't.
> Both list 123/UDP as an NTP port.
> 
> Somewhere in the depths of http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/ it states that NTP 
> is a UDP protocol as does the 2nd edition Steven's Unix Network 
> Programming Book published in the last century.
> 
> Anyone know if there is an NTP service on TCP ?
> 

There isn't, but RFC 1060 reserves 123/tcp for NTP. I can't find a superceded
RFC for 1060, so I assume it to still be valid :-)

Chris...

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