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From: Mills@udel.edu
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Subject: Re:  Network Temperature Protocol
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Date: 22 Jul 90 17:59:36 GMT
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Folks,

Louie refers to an incident where an NTP primary time server, perched almost
atop the Loma Pietra fault, mysteriously abandonded chime a couple of minutes
BEFORE the recent quake. We were tempted to investigate application of NTP
as earthquake predictor, until we learned that a fortuitous power failure
within BARRNET happened to quench its chime. Now, we are concentrating on
the nature of that precipitous failure as a possible earthwuake predictor.
Meanwhile, on the night of the quake, NTP turned out to be a useful monitoring
tool and provided much comfort that at least computers in the area, much less
people, were safe and that circuits out the Pacific were still operation.
Actually, what that was doing was confirming that the NASA Ames massive
single point of failure was still up. A UPS failure there later in the
evening conked out the entire Pacific.

Dave