In article <1992Aug13.092934.9091@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>, prins@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl (Ryko Prins) writes:
> Does someone know if there is somewhere a ntp (the internet network time protocol) client for VMS? I need to get a reliable time source for my DTS
> server. On my unix machines I use ntp to synchronize the time. It seems the most ideal way to get the right time for my VMS system would be to have a ntp client running on that system..
You need to be careful here. DECdns breaks the SYS$SETIME service (by design).
If your NTP client ever tries to use SYS$SETIME (to adjust for a *large*
discrepancy between host time and UTC, for example), be sure it can recover
gracefully when the call fails.
I've been looking at doing similar things here, and the only safe scheme I've
come up with so far is to:
o run Wollongong's NTP client on one host
o run DECdns elsewhere
o run a time provider interface on the DECdns servers, which uses
the NTP client host as its external time provider (via DECnet).
No, the code for the last is not quite working yet.
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