ntpdate working too well question.

[Colin McGregor]

 --- Taavi Burns <jaaaarel-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote: 
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:13:43 -0500, Colin McGregor
> <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Ok, so again the displays I see are in local time.
> How does the system know
> > what "local time" is?
> 
> Is it perhaps looking up your IP address in a
> geographic IP database?  I've
> seen these used in some funky traceroute-like
> programs to map known IP addresses
> in "This IP block exists in this geography" to their
> corresponding
> physical places.

Well, that is possible but it would be getting
STRANGE. The box is on a non-routable IP number (i.e.
192.168.0.x), so concivably it could do a traceroute
then assume the first routable IP number is it's
geographic location... Possible, but very strange...

> I don't know that this is what Knoppix does, but it
> might explain how
> it does its thing.

Thanks for the idea...

> -- 
> taa
> /*eof*/

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