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From: Mills@udel.edu
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Subject: Re:  NTP behaving badly on bad network
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Date: 19 Jun 91 15:43:57 GMT
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Martyn,

You can change certain parameters in the NTP daemons to
widen the aperture which the daemon believes as true time.
However, there are other spots where timing dispersion is
excessive, like in Norway. Experience there led to certain
modifications to the NTP local-clock model that should
help your case as well. Unfortunately, these mods are in the
NTP Version 3 specification, not in previous versions. NTP
v3 has been implmented in the fuzzball serves, but is not
yet available for Unix. There have been volunteers from among
this mangy bunch to implment v3 for Unix, but so far none
have barked.

Dave