Help w/ Similar Suns that won't Sync to Broadcast NTP

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From: Chris M Jepeway
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:55

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So, I'm running xntp for NTPv2 on about 15 Sparcstation 1's.
I've got 3 other Suns (a 3/280, a 3/260 and 4/280) sending
out broadcast NTP packets.  Yeah, I know Sun clocks suck, but
SS1's are the best of the lot, right?  Well, anyway, about
1/3 of the SS1's sync up to one or the other of the Sun-3's;
the remaining 2/3 won't sync to anything.  The sync'ed
SS1's get their offsets down to less than one millisecond
from their chosen host, and dispersions on these machines are
near zero.  On the unsync'ed SS1's, dispersions are anywhere
from 64 to 1.5 or so.  What can be causing this?  And any
ideas on how I might fix it so that all SS1's sync up
to one of the broadcasting hosts?

Chris <jepeway@cs.utk.edu>

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Subject: Help w/ Similar Suns that won't Sync to Broadcast NTP
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