Re: NTP services on AARNet (Automatic monthy posting)

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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 23:42

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tetragon@lisa.apana.org.au (Gavan McCormack) writes:

> Infact I wouldn't be suprised if it would be cheaper to automatically
> get your dialin line to automatically call Telecom's service once a
> week (I'm sure I heard there was a modem dialup clock.) than to use AARnet.

Well, you'd have to transfer about 250kb of data from the time server..
:-)

Actually, yes, there's a modem clock in each capital city. And because
it only allows a 20 second connection, it's cheaper to call one STD at
offpeak rates than to call the local one for 25c!

hamish

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From: hamish@cloud.apana.org.au (Hamish Moffatt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp,aus.net.aarnet
Subject: Re: NTP services on AARNet (Automatic monthy posting)
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Date: Sat, 09 Apr 94 10:42:11 +1100
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