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From: Mills@udel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re:  Not a Lord a-leaping
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Date: 1 Jan 91 15:00:09 GMT
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Guys,

Well, one of the lords stumbled. Before I could update the
startup file on fuzz.sdsc.edu, for some reason that lord
was rebooted. That of course exlains the great leap backward
31,536,001 seconds. We gotta get new radios that know what
year it is and, for that matter, when the lords should leap.

As seen from here (net 128.4), wwvb.isi.edu, bitsy.mit.edu
and apple.com are oscillating on and off the planet every
few minutes. This is getting worse, as is the packet-drop
rate on SURA-NSFNET paths. Also, dear hears, can I once again
plead for help in resisting the urge to ping NTP with dinky
dcn6.udel.edu? This is a test host located at the end of
a dinky 9600-bps line in my shack. As noted in the NTP atlas
pub/ntp/clock.txt on louie.udel.edu, the operator wishes it
not be used except for experiment and development. Well, the
situation has gotten out of hands, with some 33 developers
now chiming away. This makes it moderately irky when trying
new software. Thanks for your support.

Dave