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Clock synchronization with Chris Perl

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

NTP

In the simple world, you could just set your time. But that's not generally how most network time protocol daimens work. What they'll do is take a number of samples from a single server and apply different criteria to decide if you should even consider them. They're generally referred to in sort of NTP parlance as false tickers or true chimers.

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