[ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

Augustine evandro at mailinator.com
Wed Mar 4 18:29:42 UTC 2009


On Mar 3, 4:01 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
>
> NTP does this ONLY when the time is off by 128 milliseconds or more.  If
> NTP is that far off, other than at startup, something is badly wrong
> somewhere!

The problem is that I've seen this in the silly reaction of different
NTP versions and servers to the recent leap second, causing my systems
to be stepped by 1s back and forth (see bug #1110).




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