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From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Ran Atkinson)
Subject: Re: Network Time Software
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Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
References: <1993Aug9.192057.22592@nevada.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 21:44:10 GMT
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In article <1993Aug9.192057.22592@nevada.edu> ence@bullfrog.nscee.edu (David A. Ence) writes:
>Hello all,
>
>	I am looking for a network time program like NTP to keep the time on 
>all of my machines in sync.  I was wondering if any of you out there have any 
>suggestions as to what program to use.  What in oppinion is the best, and 
>where I can find it?  The platforms I'am running are Sparc's a Cray, and a 
>Convex.  Any help would be appriciated.

Oddly enough, you do want to use NTPv3 to solve this problem.  The
official archive site for NTPv3 is louie.udel.edu and the package is
called "xntp".  Discussion of this belongs in comp.protocols.time.ntp
and is redirected there.