mohamed@hscfvax.harvard.edu (Mohamed_el_Lozy) (02/25/88)
In article <2710@druhi.ATT.COM> aws@druhi.ATT.COM (SteereA) writes: > I am looking for articles, references, implementations, >etc. for solving the problem of keeping N machines within >a specified time of one another. I appreciate any and all pointers. I am directing followup to comp.protocols.tcp-ip, where it would be more appropriate. I assume that the machines are networked. A good start would be in three RFCs written by Dave Mills: 956 Algorithms for synchronizing network clocks 957 Experiments in network clock synchronization 958 Network time protocol (NTP) They all came out in 1985, and have reasonable references for that time. A UNIX (BSD only, as I recall) implementation of NTP has been written at trantor.umd.edu, which also maintains a mailing list. To get on it send mail to ntp-request@trantor.umd.edu. There is also often quite a bit of network time discussion in comp.protocols.tcp-ip, especially when interesting things like leap seconds turn up. BSD4.3 implementations have a timed program, discussed at some length in the documentation (not available to me right now). I would very much appreciate some post 1985 references.