[189196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Wed May 11 03:28:04 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 07:24:43 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAB69EHgwW4aULT95VbeyhxcsLVkSuD=Ozh2ZKaa8E4LROpi40g@mail.gmail.com>
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