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From: awy@concurrent.co.UK (Alan Young)
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Subject: ntp & Sparcstation running 4.0.1 -- loss of sync
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Date: 8 Mar 91 08:03:50 GMT
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Running ntpd (manual page dated 15 June 1989) on a Sun4 sparcstation
running SunOS 4.0.1c I can get in sync with another host and get the
offset down to something reasonable (< 100 ms) with a dispersion in the
thousands.  Then the dispersion suddenly goes out to 64000 and we are
out of sync for a couple of minutes.  This cycle repeats about every 5
minutes.  The offset often goes out to as much as 5s.  Someone suggested
that this may be a know problem (with solution): any ideas?

Also, in the simple ntpdc display, the man page describes what '-' & '*'
at the start of a line mean, but what about '+'?

Please reply directly as I am not on the ntp list.

Alan Young.