Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> David Woolley wrote:
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Unless he introduced the error deliberately in order to "test" NTP.
>>>
>>
>> If he did, it is a case of garbage in and ntpd is under no obligation 
>> to expeditiously correct for it.  You can't evaluate the dynamic 
>> response of ntpd based on unreasonable stimuli.
> 
> You don't need to dig too deeply in the archives to find cases of people 
>  doing just that!

I'm very well aware that it is a very common way of "acceptance testing" 
ntpd for people who don't understand it.  However, the correct response 
to such a large offset is to ignore it as long as possible, as, in real 
operation, if it doesn't represesnt a fault that needs fixing outside of 
ntpd, it represents a temporary network disturbance and the local clock 
time is still actually valid.

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