[geeks] Come here often?

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Sometimes you see names you know in the most unusual places.

This morning's status report from one of my Suns (rtfm.artell.net) showed
...

Network Time Service
--------------------
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
disp
============================================================================
==
-tandem          time.nist.gov    2 u  530 1024  376     2.99  -15.915
15.46
+ohno.mrbill.net time.nist.gov    2 u  111   64  377    98.95    0.954
0.55
*seattle.esysmai navobs1.gatech.  2 u   52   64  377   108.18   -1.976
0.76
+cudns.cit.corne gps1.tns.its.ps  2 u  103   64  377   122.50    0.038
0.27

... it looks like ohno.mrbill.net is part of the worldwide timekeeping
conspiracy, otherwise known as http://www.pool.ntp.org/.  Bravo!

The semi-interesting bit about this is that the asterisk shows that the ntpd
on rtfm prefers Mr.Bill's version of the time from time.nist.gov to
tandem's.  tandem.artell.net is on the same subnet as rtfm.artell.net.

-Shel