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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, hard-coded IP addresses in NetGear routers caused them to flood one of these servers run by (15[1])UW-Madison. (15[1])These servers can be sorted into “strata”, where stratum 1 servers provide information to stratum 2 servers and so on. (-5[1])Devices might communicate with these kinds of servers running the (*) NTP protocol in order to reduce system “drift”. They have nothing to do with geolocation, (10[1])but (10[1])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■

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