Re: Windows XP RC2

["Gregory McCann" <cambria () owt com>]

Apologies if I am missing something here, but the Microsoft time server is time.windows.com (as stated in the original 
message far below), not time.microsoft.com.

Anyone can easily connect to it.  I use the "Dimension 4" time client on my Windows ME PC and simply added an entry for 
the time.windows.com SNTP server and it worked fine.  It was about 2 seconds ahead of the time server I currently use.

In *nix, it's "ntpdate time.windows.com".

Greg

On 8/20/2001 at 12:21 PM bugtraq wrote:

> 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.
>
> Take Care,
> Duane.
>
>
>
> At 06:36 AM 8/20/2001, you wrote:
> > Well I am not sure if you would consider this a bug, incident, monitoring
> or
> > a feature, but in Windows XP RC2 that we loaded this weekend
> > I noticed that M$ has Network Time Client built to keep correct time.
> >
> > This is good so that we do not have to grab a 3rd party app and install
> it,
> > but what is disturbing is take a guess as to what the "default" Time
> Server
> > that gets used???
> >
> > time.windows.com  !!!
> >
> >
> > Well for every install M$ can monitor/track who is running XP that has a
> Net
> > connection.
> > Yes you can simply pick another like my favorite
> > "time-a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov" and all is well, but that average user wont
> > know this and may not even care, but they should ;)
> >
> > If your real paranoid one can think well if the NTP is using
> > time.windows.com what is stopping M$ from having some hidden app that can
> be
> > communicated to once they grab the IP that queries their time server?!
> >
> > Thanks for listening
> >
> > Dino