Comments on: Strange NTP Services–Revealed!

By: Piercing

Piercing — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:54:26 +0000

Are all timeservers using same ports 78 and 79?

By: Boing Boing

Boing Boing — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:44:33 +0000

Coded messages on US govt timeserver’s nonstandard port
A US government timeserver has a bizarre service running on a nonstandard port that will output sweet, random coded jump-rope poems and numbers: % telnet time.nist.gov 78 Trying 192.43.244.18… Connected to time.nist.gov. Escape character is ‘^]’. P…

By: Matthew Rothenberg

Matthew Rothenberg — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:18:00 +0000

“Lowtax,” I did not receive the information from “isnoop” or anyone affiliated with the website you linked earlier. If this isnoop was indeed the first person to find the server ports (which considering they have apparently been active since at least 2002, seems somewhat unlikely), then I’m happy to give him credit for that. It had been making its way around the IM/IRC circle in the “hey check out this server” format, I thought it was interesting, so I decided to post about it.

By: Lowtax

Lowtax — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:04:18 +0000

And you still haven’t credited isnoop with finding the messages in the first place. :waycool:

By: cheesebikini?

cheesebikini? — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:59:50 +0000

Time-signal Weirdness
UPDATE: A NIST employee has explained the service described below. This just in from fellow SIMian Matthew Rothenberg:] Here’s something strange to explore. A guy I know recently stumbled across this. time.nist.gov is a standard NTP server, used to sy…