Re: [Ntp] An RFC6921-compliant NTP implementation

Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@meinberg.de> Thu, 01 April 2021 09:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ntp] An RFC6921-compliant NTP implementation
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Hi,

On 2021-04-01 02:00 Daniel Franke wrote:
> Building on the groundbreaking results from CERN's OPERA experiment 
> showing that neutrinos can be accelerated to superluminal speeds merely 
> by loosening the contacts on a transmission cable, I'm pleased to report 
> a mostly-successful experiment building an RFC6921 ("Design 
> Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication") compliant 
> implementation of NTP.
 > [...]

This sounds like a real cool improvement.

I can imagine that "bad guys" will try to spoof this. Will it be 
possible to use NTS to avoid that? ;-)

Martin
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