Tom,
I had the same problem on my RH 6.0 system. I could ping
the time server, but rdate would hang. On my end, it looked
like the request went out and nothing ever came back. No
time out or anything--it just waited until I killed it.
I never found a fix for rdate, but did find that ntpdate
worked perfectly. So, if you simply want the functionality,
try ntpdate; but if you want to know what's wrong with
rdate, good luck. Please let me know if you figure it out.
Cheers,
Ed
[esalexa@delenn esalexa]$ uptime
6:47pm up 13 days, 2:25, 5 users, load average: 0.02,
0.03, 0.00
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:50:18, Tom Bentley wrote:
> Rdate hangs on 5 out of 13 servers in my wide-area
> network. 2 of those that fail are RH 6.0, 3 are
> are RH6.1, and one is RH5.2. The server they're
> requesting the time from is running RH5.2, but they
> fail requesting from RH6.1 server, too.
>
> All these machines can ping and tracert to the time
> server, and have that machine's address in /etc/hosts,
> as well as themselves being addressed in the time
> server's /etc/hosts.
>
> Anyone have any idea why this would be? Appreciate
> any thoughts.
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