Re: Windows XP RC2

From: Dino (slayer67@apk.net)
Date: 08/21/01 

Message-ID: <00e701c12a30$1d501970$0500a8c0@ss810>
From: "Dino" <slayer67@apk.net>
To: <vuln-dev@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Windows XP RC2
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 06:57:23 -0400

I added time.windows.com to a 3rd party NTP app and it could not get the
time from time.windows.com.
I tried it on Unix also and it did not work either ;)

Maybe there timeserver is not RF868 compliant or just typical MS-centric?

Subject: Re: Windows XP RC2

> Hi Listers,
>
> I am new to this list and if my reply is out of line, please forgive me.
>
> How hard would it be to write a pseudo client for the *nix os's that would
> query time.microsoft.com and then use or not use the information as the
> programmer would deem appropriate? If there were enough pseudo clients
out
> there, it would throw a big monkey wrench into the statistics (if any)
that
> M$ is gathering.

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