[time-nuts] Setting Windows XP clock.

[Hal Murray]

albertson.chris at gmail.com said:
> 1) It is set to use an NTP server called  "time.windows.com"
> to set the clock.
>  3) The above is working as well as it has ever worked.
>   Nothing has changed at Microsoft's end. 

It may be more complicated than that.

time.windows.com is a cname for time.microsoft.akadns.net
That's Akami's DNS magic to give you the closest/best server.
I'm in Silicon Valley.  I get either 65.55.56.206 or 64.4.10.33

64.4.10.33 only works some of the time.  It's not random packet drops.  It 
drops out for a while, then recovers.

65.55.56.206 is similar, but seems to work more often, at least from my 
hacking of the last few minutes.

Both IP ranges are assigned to Microsoft.  Neither responds to pings.

You will probably see different results if you are in a different location.



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