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Article #935Holy Cow! NTP works on AIX/370 (finally)...
From: Valdis Kletnieks
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 04:33
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 04:33
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All you chronon counters with blue skins take note: AIX/370 1.2.1 - at the '0300' level (PTF U401375), IBM released APAR IX18142 which makes the 'adjtime()' syscall behave itself reasonably well. Our AIX/370 machine (a 3090-300) is currently running at stratum 3, and tracking our strat-2 boxen with about 2-3 ms offsets, and dispersions close to zero. The behavior of "slam the clock backwards several hours" is gone... The latest value in /etc/ntp.drift is -0.0098724403, which seems to indicate a reasonably stable clock... I think this is one of the longest-running problems I've ever had with a vendor. I reported this problem to IBM back on Sept 15, 1989.... Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Engineer Virginia Tech
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU!Valdis.Kletnieks From: Valdis.Kletnieks@VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU (Valdis Kletnieks) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp Subject: Holy Cow! NTP works on AIX/370 (finally)... Message-ID: <9106110833.AA02446@trantor.umd.edu> Date: 11 Jun 91 04:33:22 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 18