ntpd halts clock on a DS3100 (?)

[Jeff Hayward]

In article <980 at imec.UUCP> elsen at imec.be (Marc Elsen) writes:
>  [...]
>  The stations are all ntp clients and the 5400 is always configured
>  as the (only time server).
>  [...]
>  The following has happened 2 times since : on 2 DIFFERENT decstation
>  the clock seemingly halted !!
>  That is subsequent date commands always showed the same frozen time !!!

I've seen this behavior many times on my DS3100's running ultrix V4.0
and the DEC-supplied ntpd.  I went to xntp, same results.  If anyone
knows more about this I'd appreciate hearing about it.

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