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From: Mills@udel.edu
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Subject: Re:  Excessive polling problem...
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Date: 16 Jan 91 22:30:38 GMT
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Dave,

Something is broken. No chimer should ever chime more often than 2**NTP.MINPOLL
seconds in any case. If it does, maybe something is broken in the system
timekeeping code. Note that very old (Version 0) ntpd had a problem in 
responding to polls, but not in initiating them. I think all those old
versions (circa 1987) are gone.

Dave