robmack@eik.ii.uib.no (Robert MacKinnon ) (06/03/91)
In the DCE proposal to OSF, the time service agent is DEC's dts software. Is dts protocol compatible with ntp? Will dts be able to chime against ntp statum 1 servers or must dts stratum 1 servers be used? Rob MacKinnon Bergen Scientific Centre Bergen, Norway.
Mills@udel.edu (06/03/91)
Robert, The NTP and DEC Digital Time Synchronizing Service (DTSS as DEC now calls it) are distinctly different protocols and cannot directly interwork; however, in most cases they could run on the same machine serving as a time gateway between the Internet and DECnet protocol stacks. There is a document comparing the two protocols which has been given to the ANSI committee; however, this document is not suitable for wide distribution, since somebody from Computerworld would instantly misuse it. If you want a copy and are willing to thrash through the intensely technical discussion, please honk. Dave
paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (06/03/91)
> The NTP and DEC Digital Time Synchronizing Service (DTSS as DEC now calls it) > are distinctly different protocols and cannot directly interwork; however, > in most cases they could run on the same machine serving as a time gateway > between the Internet and DECnet protocol stacks. According to the DEC OSI development team, they are putting the "hooks" to allow NTP time to be imported to DTSS for Ultrix. I asked about VMS. DEC wasn't aware that there was an NTP implementation for VMS. When I told them of the vendor who "had it now" the speaker said he would take that information back to the development team.