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From: medin@NSIPO.NASA.GOV ("Milo S. Medin", NASA ARC NSI Project Office)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re: A poor man's WWV receiver (via modem)
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Date: 11 Nov 90 05:30:28 GMT
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Not true!   The USNO is connected to the Internet via the NASA Science Net.  
We have a 56 Kbps link from there to GSFC, whre it hits the NSN backbone, and
then via FIX's to the NSFNET and other US Government backbones.


U.S. Naval Observatory (NET-USNO)
   Observatory Circle NW
   Washington, DC 20390

   NetName: USNO
   NetNumber: 192.5.41.0

   Coordinator:
      Withington, F. Neville  (NW33)  FNW@USNO01.UNSO.NAVY.MIL
      (202) 653-0588

   Record last updated on 23-Oct-90.


It's also reachable:

traceroute to usno01.usno.navy.mil (192.5.41.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  arc-nas-gw (128.102.16.5)  10 ms  10 ms  0 ms
 2  ARC1.NSN.NASA.GOV (192.52.195.2)  10 ms  0 ms  10 ms
 3  GSFC1.NSN.NASA.GOV (128.161.2.3)  90 ms  90 ms  100 ms
 4  GSFC3.NSN.NASA.GOV (128.161.16.33)  90 ms  90 ms  100 ms
 5  USNO.NSN.NASA.GOV (128.161.38.35)  110 ms  120 ms  130 ms
 6  * * *


Perhaps you should tell your friends there to connect up to this network...

						Thanks,
						    Milo