NTP over HTTP
Posted by Michał ‘mina86’ Nazarewicz on 16th of January 2010
Sitting in a dark office, after swearing for hours at ATI video cards I noticed time on my computer was incorrect. ‘No problem,’ I thought as I started typing ntpdate
. That’s where it struck me that our beloved IT department had blocked most of the Internet. Checking the time on a watch or a mobile phone was not an option — I had neither — nor was looking at GKrellM on another PC — that’s lame.
‘I wish there was a NTP-over-HTTP protocol’ I sighed. And then I realised there was…