[ntp:questions] ntpd wedged again

[A C]

I'm not exactly sure what happened but I may have caught the system in 
the act of trying to run away.  Below is the last two lines from the 
peers log for one of the peers and below that is the output of ntpq 
showing what happened to that peer immediately after.  Note the offset. 
  This somewhat matches what I had been seeing previously where my 
system would be reporting sane numbers and then very suddenly go haywire.

55969 77832.471 67.23.181.241 9324 0.006359155 0.081262776 0.001634487 
0.008837966
55969 77897.557 67.23.181.241 9324 399326.864663492 0.000122070 
0.001346708 399326.861631493


       remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
  jitter
 
==============================================================================
   127.127.22.0    .PPS.            0 l    5   16  377    0.000    0.095 
   0.122
   127.127.28.0    .GPSD.           4 l   36  128  377    0.000    6.399 
  10.748
  -67.223.228.71   18.26.4.105      2 u    4   64  377   95.580   -3.863 
  14.410
  +74.118.152.85   69.36.224.15     2 u   20   64  377   41.318    0.492 
   3.692
   67.23.181.241   128.4.1.1        2 u   53   64  377    0.122  3993268 
3993268
  +130.207.165.28  130.207.244.240  2 u    7   64  377   77.872    2.837 
   0.328
  *131.144.4.10    130.207.244.240  2 u    1   64  377   84.182    1.434 
  10.710


After a couple minutes things went back to normal as if nothing had 
happened:

55969 78417.519 67.23.181.241 9024 0.005904355 0.081140840 0.005271221 
0.000546629
55969 78545.470 67.23.181.241 9324 0.006413290 0.081305361 0.002089938 
0.011478833


      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
  jitter
==============================================================================
  127.127.22.0    .PPS.            0 l   15   16  377    0.000    0.092 
   0.122
  127.127.28.0    .GPSD.           4 l   94  128  377    0.000   11.432 
   8.820
-67.223.228.71   18.26.4.105      2 u   58   64  377   95.580   -3.863 
  8.613
+74.118.152.85   69.36.224.15     2 u    9   64  377   41.034    0.488 
  3.691
-67.23.181.241   128.4.1.1        2 u   44   64  377   81.141    5.904 
  0.547
+130.207.165.28  130.207.244.240  2 u   62   64  377   78.036    3.062 
  0.628
*131.144.4.10    130.207.244.240  2 u   59   64  377   84.182    1.434 
10.717


It's the fist time that I've actually been able to see this happen while 
staring at the monitor.  I'm not certain but I suspect that the last few 
times this happened where the system did run away the peer that 
experienced the strange behavior happened to also be the selected system 
peer.  I can't explain the behavior though because everything looks fine 
on my system otherwise and the remote server also seems to be fine given 
that its offset was normal just before the update.