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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>
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Subject: ntpdate broken?
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<<On Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:35:28 -0400 (EDT), Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> said:

> I give the command   ntpdate nic.near.net  (a local stratum 2 server),
> I get the following:
> 	31 Aug 13:34:12 ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization found

nic.near.net is still running the ancient version 2 ntp code.
(Shouldn't that be `nic.ner.bbnplanet.com' or some such nonsense?)
You need to use more up-to-date servers or the `-o' flag to tell
ntpdate that it should speak the old protocol.

-GAWollman

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