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Re: Any "standard" name for ISP time services?

  • From: J.D. Falk
  • Date: Thu Nov 16 15:31:38 2000

On 11/16/00, [email protected] wrote: 

> I'm currently composing a note to a software house, which is asking for
> permission to list some of our NTP servers in their software's config files.
> Before I do that, is there any "standard" for ISP's for naming their
> hosts that provide time service on ports 13, 37, or 123?  Even if it's
> a list of "AOL users should try 'time.aol.com' first" rules, that might
> be an improvement....

	Many of them are named "time" or "clock," but then there's
	historical sites like clepsydra....

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