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- From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
- Subject: Re: adjclock - automatically maintain real-time clock
- Message-ID: <21904@rpp386.lonestar.org>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:48:17 GMT
- References: <21809@rpp386.lonestar.org> <SOUVA.92Nov18165737@aibn55.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <9211181646.AA14462@wendy-fate.UU.NET> <x?a1Hcw!za@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
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- In article <x?a1Hcw!za@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
- >In article <9211181646.AA14462@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes:
- >>Why bother running a server for this? For what applications is
- >>millisecond accuracy with reference to an atomic clock necessary?
- >
- >- AFS
- >- Kerberos
- >- any other security system involving time-dependant keys
- >
- >It may not require an absolutely correct time, but clocks need to be
- >accurate relative to each other.
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- I've had adjclock running without an additional adjustment since 11/13
- and it is within 2 seconds of being correct. That's pretty damned good
- for a machine that does have an Internet connection.
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- Is adjclock good enough for Kerberos? Probably. I see plenty of
- machines running AFS more than 1000ms apart. Is adjclock cheaper than
- an Internet connection? Definitely.
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