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From: adelman@tgv.com (Kenneth Adelman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re:  NTP experiment - large drifts on unsynced systems
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Date: 11 Mar 91 00:41:20 GMT
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In article <9103081605.AA04279@thdsun.EPM.ORNL.GOV>, dunigan@THDSUN.EPM.ORNL.GOV (Tom Dunigan 576-2522) writes...
>you might check with TGV, we got them to make patches to their
>ntp to fix a bug and to tighten their local clock adjustment.
>(we never could get them to use a drift file for ntp startup).
>I don't know if they have incorporated those fixes into their distribution.
>Our discusions with them occured in early November, 1990.

These fixes are included in V2.2 Rev E and later. Customers
running earlier revisions of V2.2 can FTP the upgrade kit
from the ANONYMOUS directory on TGV.COM (ECO-AF022.A).

As I had told you earlier, support for the drift file will
be included in MultiNet V3.0. Braindamage in the VAX C
runtime support broke the UNIX code in a way which didn't
seem worth trying to patch.

							Ken