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From: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Re: syncronizing clocks on workstations
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Date: 4 Jun 91 16:23:24 GMT
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In article <988@sunpix.East.Sun.COM>, jlf@galaxy.East.Sun.COM (John "Do The Bartman" Furlani) writes:
>
>Hands down, then best way to synchronize clocks over a network is to use
>NTP (Network Time Protocol).

And the hands down best configuration is XNTP with a couple of
broadcast servers.  It's much, much, easier than settting up
/etc/ntp.conf files on each system telling it which systems to
synchronize to, and it uses less bandwidth too.

-- 
Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)	  Tug on anything in nature and you will find
Martin Marietta Energy Systems    it connected to everything else.
Workstation Support                                             --John Muir