On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:49:53AM -0700, Will Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:23:21AM -0800, Anne Carasik wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:45:21PM +0200, eim wrote: > > > A question about some network services > > > ====================================== > > > > > > Hallo Debian folks, > > > > > > By default, on my debian boxes, I disable this network > > > services which are enabled automaticly during a fresh > > > Debian stable aka "potato" installtion: > > > > > > * daytime > > > * time > > > * discard > > > > > > All this services are stareted from inet.d / xinet.d > > > so I can easily disable them via "update-inetd", > > > so my only question is: > > > > > > Why are this services enabled by default and > > > for 'what' exactly do we need them ? > > > > Well, daytime spits out the time of day, time is for NTP, > > and I'm not sure what discard is used for. > > 'time' is RFC 868, a pre-NTP time synchronization protocol. It just > sends the time as a 32-bit int, where: > > "The time is the number of seconds since 00:00 (midnight) 1 January 1900 > GMT, such that the time 1 is 12:00:01 am on 1 January 1900 GMT; this > base will serve until the year 2036." > > I think it sends it big-endian, but I'm not sure.
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