Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!udel.edu!Mills
From: Mills@udel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re:  NTP v3
Message-ID: <9103181305.aa22456@huey.udel.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 18:05:31 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 16

Bob,

The ntp.3.4 distribution is basically a hopped-up version 1 implementation,
while the xntp distribution is version 2. I don't remember offhand who
is working on it, but I have had several enquiries on details of the
spec, some indicating keen scrutiny. 

I watch most of the stratum-1 critters from here and observe generally
stable behavior with a couple of tens of milliseconds. Sometimes one or
more of them drop to stratum 2 and sometimes they disappear for periods
to maybe an hour, but in general the behavior is not nearly as bad as
you report. But, then, I am not watching BARRNET hosts specifically.
Here on SURANET we experience typically a 3-percent drop rate, but that
does not materially affect NTP performance.

Dave