H1C5962@ZEUS.TAMU.EDU (Lee Cox) (04/05/91)
I am running xntpd on several hosts, one of which I am using as a
stratum 2 server. Lately, xntpd has started deciding, several times
daily, that every host with which it communicating is insane and starts
the process of synchronizing all over again. We have been having
broadcast storms on the subnet from unruly PC's and AppleTalkers and I
assume that the clutter on the network is the probable cause. Has
anyone else run into this problem and, if so, what can I do about it?
While I'm at it, does anyone know the status of NTP version 3 on UNIX
systems?
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-------ramus@WINDSAIL.NERSC.GOV (Joe Ramus) (04/05/91)
>> I am running xntpd on several hosts, one of which I am using as a >> stratum 2 server. Lately, xntpd has started deciding, several times >> daily, that every host with which it communicating is insane and starts >> the process of synchronizing all over again. >> Lee Cox I have seen something similiar. One of our Sun Sparc workstations is used a lot for Graphics. During the night, xntpd gets the time synched pretty close to our time servers. But during the day, it gets out of synch. This is most likely due to lost clock interrupts when doing the heavy graphics work. This particular machine is not a time server, so no harm is done.