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From: J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft)
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Subject: Re: World record furthest telnet: Australia -> Sweden
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Date: 3 Jul 89 09:37:51 GMT
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 >In article <8906281206.aa05174@huey.udel.edu>, Mills@UDEL.EDU writes:
 >> Might I interest you in coming up network time (NTP) on those antipodal
 >> hosts and claim the DX award for time synchronization.

 >We've done that already ... in fact, that one of the first things we
 >got going (there were some people here sick of clocks that never keep
 >quite the right time - keeping them in sync with each other was fine,
 >but only of marginal interest when that meant they all showed the wrong time).

want to try peering with UCL - we will have a rugby clock up in the
next couple of weeks ...

b.t.w we used to have the longest bridge between two LANs - we did
protocol conversion in an LSI to get from BSP to TCP, but becuase of
the lack of sensible loopback in the LSI, we bounced the bits off a
satellite - the rings concerned were collocated in the basement here -
to ftp from 2 pdp 11/44s in the same room, the fiels had to go
36000km...

jon