Subject: Re: NTP gone haywire.
To: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: John Klos <john@sixgirls.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/01/2002 17:55:05
Hi,

> 	I had this in my syslog, did anyone else run into tryouble with
> NTP? While there doesn't appear to be any way to figure out what happened,
> shouldn't ntp drop a bogus reading and not exit the daemon. I have four
> ntp servers in my conf file, three that refer to the same server and one
> satellite system. Any thoughts? NTP is running just fine now, I'm just
> curious why it died. It's pretty unlikely that all the systems reported an
> incorrect time, or am I not understanding NTP's operation correctly?

It seems more likely that your Mac's time was off by 1000 seconds or more.
This is not unexpected with the time & interrupt problem that Macs running
BSD have.

John