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Article #898Re: General help-info
From: "Edward C. Bennett"
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1991 18:03
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1991 18:03
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>- I need to syncronize over 500 machine - almostly all > exclusively Suns (490's, 330's and SparcStations at 4.1 & 4.1.1). > Since we also have International offices (London, Tokyo etc), This strikes me as interesting...Suppose a company has offices on several continents and they want to synchronize their clocks. Do they really need to peer with each other? Why shouldn't the European office peer with a Stratum 1 server in Europe, Japanese office to a server in Japan, etc.? Look at it like this, the shortwave radio signals that the Stratum 1's listen to is global, in effect an international network. Once the signals are received and put on a wire it is redundant to send them back around the world. Tokyo doesn't need to peer with New York on a wire because WWV does it for them through the air. -- Edward C. Bennett - The other WIN/MHS & MMDF guy edward@twg.com The Wollongong Group (415) 962-7252 1129 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 "He's become a growling, snarling mass of white-hot canine terror"
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Subject: Re: General help-info
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