The Network Time Protocol service can be used to synchronize computer clocks. Explain why, even with this service, no guaranteed bound given for the difference between two clocks.

What will be an ideal response?

Any client using the ntp service must communicate with it by means of messages passed over a communication
channel. If a bound can be set on the time to transmit a message over a communication channel, then the
difference between the client’s clock and the value supplied by the ntp service would also be bounded. With
unbounded message transmission time, clock differences are necessarily unbounded.

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