On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Darren Reed wrote:
> What purpose would intermediate hop timestamps serve ?
It would allow us to track the progress of a message. For example we may
be able to determine that a particular intermediate host is introducing a
delay for some reason. It may allow us to better correlate between
multiple systems with out-of-sync clocks.
> If a message from A goes via B and C to reach D, is the time it passed
> through B and C important, compared with the time it was sent from A ?
Yes.
> Given that the time of the event is usually what we care about, is the
> receiving time at D important ?
Very much so.
> I suspect this might be more of an issue for people with cross-timezone
> problems, where you want to know if a message was sent by a host at 3am
> or you only want to be paged for things received between 12am and 11am.
>
> Comments ?
>
> Darren
Doug Granzow
