[comp.protocols.time.ntp] ntp help

jae@is.Morgan.COM (Jae Sang) (11/21/90)

we are running ntp among our sun sparcstation (SUN OS 4.1) and are
having difficulty in synching their clocks to our Sparcserver 4/490
(SUN OS 4.1).  The offset appears to vary up to 1.5 seconds.  I
gather that NTP should be able to maintain a tighter tolerance than this.
Below are the ntp.conf files on the server as well as a workstation.
Any suggestions?

  Server: precision -7
          peer /dev/null LOCL 1 -7 local

  Workstation: precision -7
               server is1   (* note: is1 is the above sparcserver)

Result of ntp -v chris (* note: chris is a workstation)

Packet from: [138.20.4.27]
Leap 0, version 1, mode Symmetric Passive, poll 6, precision 249 stratum 2 [138.
20.4.1]
Synch Distance is 0000.075f  0.028793
Synch Dispersion is 0000.64b5  0.393387
Reference Timestamp is aaf51113.3d0c8040 Wed Nov 21 09:43:31 1990
Originate Timestamp is aaf512bf.68f5c28e Wed Nov 21 09:50:39 1990
Receive Timestamp is   aaf512bd.bb95c421 Wed Nov 21 09:50:37 1990
Transmit Timestamp is  aaf512bd.bbbe0157 Wed Nov 21 09:50:37 1990
Input Timestamp is     aaf512bf.68f5d355 Wed Nov 21 09:50:39 1990
chris: delay:-0.000613 offset:-1.676939  Wed Nov 21 09:50:36 1990

jae@is.morgan.com