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Description acceptable. Companies that primarily produce these kinds of servers include Tekron, Meinberg, and EndRun Technologies. Attributes like priority1, priority2, and class are compared by the BMCA algorithm to choose one of these servers as the grandmaster. In a 2003 incident that continues to this day, (15[1])hard-coded IP addresses in NetGear routers caused them to flood one of these servers run by UW-Madison. (-5[1])These servers can be sorted into “strata”, where stratum 1 servers provide information to stratum 2 servers (-5[1])and so on. Devices might communicate with these kinds of servers running the (*) NTP protocol (-5[1])in order to reduce system “drift”. They have nothing to do with geolocation, but these servers typically use a reference source like GPS or another global satellite system to provide accurate data. For 10 points, name these servers that clients might use to synchronize to UTC or learn of (10[1])impending leap seconds. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: time servers [accept clock servers; accept descriptions of anything that provides the time; accept NTP servers before “NTP”]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Jaimie Carlson	Dianetics for Diabetics	screaming into the public static void main(String[] args)	45	15
Dan Ni	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	62	-5
Kevin Wang	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins	79	-5
Vishwa Shanmugam	Macro Editors	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	94	-5
Rob Carson	Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	143	10
Jerry Vinokurov	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	147	10
Raul Passement	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	Macro Editors	147	10