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From: hans@ditmela.oz (Hans Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  World record furthest telnet: Australia -> Sweden
Message-ID: <5894@ditmela.oz>
Date: 30 Jun 89 00:32:21 GMT
References: <8906281206.aa05174@huey.udel.edu>
Reply-To: hans@ditmela.oz.au (Hans Eriksson)
Organization: CSIRO/DIT, Melbourne, Australia (on leave from SICS, Sweden)
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In article <8906281206.aa05174@huey.udel.edu> Mills@UDEL.EDU writes:
> As some might say, that's great DX. Might I interest you in coming up
> network time (NTP) on those antipodal hosts and claim the DX award
> for time synchronization. Next, you get to try the Worked All Clocks
> award.

Well, there aren't that many world records available, so I'd had to
try that way to fame :-)

> The more serious agenda here is to measure the delays and
> dispersions on those paths over a significant interval and compare with
> similar data I have here on the US - Norway path.

Sure, could you send me an extract of your data so I known what to
measure and in what form. Better make sure that the data really are
comparable.

/hans
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