Wierd things with NTP

[Christoph Doerbeck A242369]

Never mind.  I determined my secondary clock had lost it's signal
and the primary was now overwhelmed.  So, wierd things ensued.
Need more stratum 1 clocks :-)


Christoph Doerbeck A242369 wrote:
> 
> Anybody else notice some odd behaviors with xntp over the past
> couple of days.  I had a plethora of servers doing this since
> since Sept 8th.
> 
> Sep 10 10:53:00 hb-esd102 xntpd[1185]: time reset (step) 0.170047 s
> Sep 10 10:57:35 hb-esd102 xntpd[1185]: time reset (step) -0.314797 s
> Sep 10 11:02:36 hb-esd102 xntpd[1185]: time reset (step) 0.318127 s
> 
> As you can tell, the host is moving time up and down every 5 minutes.
> Then all of a sudden this morning at 6am, every server stopped doing it.
> The hosts get their time from a pair of xntp servers with locally
> attached stratum-0 GPS antennas.
> 
> Anyone aware if the govt is smudging the time source to reduce 
> GPS accuracy?
> 
> 
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