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Re: Need server for U of Oklahoma, Norman

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From: Mike Richman
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:11
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In article <Bxw4pu.K2o@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, richman@reepicheep.gcn.uoknor.edu (Mike Richman) writes:
|> Can someone supply me with a server on the University of Oklahoma at
|> Norman to synchronize with?  I used to use orion.ecn.uoknor.edu and that
|> no longer works.  [I've called several people at OU and no one seem to
|> be able to supply a machine name]  All I get now on boot is the
|> following message:
|> 
|> /usr/local/sbin/ntpdate: no suitable server for synchronization found
|> 
|> The clock on my Sparcstation has drifted nearly 5 minutes within a
|> week!  Thanks in advance.

Thanks to all who told me that orion was decomissioned and constellation
was the replacement.  The way my boot file is set up, it uses the ip
number to poll, so DNS won't work.  Is there a newer version which will
use a nameserver?
-- 
Mike Richman                        !CIMMS/The University of Oklahoma
richman@reepicheep.gcn.uoknor.edu   !100 East Boyd, Room 1110
405-325-3460 (office) 325-7614 (fax)!Norman, OK  73019-0628  USA
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From: richman@reepicheep.gcn.uoknor.edu (Mike Richman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re: Need server for U of Oklahoma, Norman
Keywords: ntpdate
Message-ID: <Bxx3Jz.CG9@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:11:54 GMT
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