Package: ntp-server
Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1
Severity: important

ntp-server is quickly losing its time sync.  I don't know WTF, but for
years ntp has kept offsets < 100 ms on my host, with the same 3
upstream servers I'm using now.  But look at the offsets in the
following sequence of results of 'date; ntpq -c peers', taken about 5
minutes apart:

Thu Mar 16 04:29:30 EST 2006
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 louie.udel.edu  18.145.0.30      2 u    6   64    3   18.594  -253.41 521.542
 cudns.cit.corne 192.43.244.18    2 u    2   64    3   31.823  -284.90 518.453
 ge-4-21-ur01.ro 68.87.96.6       3 u    4   64    3    7.897  -783.02 489.736

Thu Mar 16 04:35:48 EST 2006
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 louie.udel.edu  18.145.0.30      2 u   59   64  177   16.649  -2542.1 1400.86
 cudns.cit.corne 192.43.244.18    2 u   58   64  177   31.581  -2540.6 1384.68
 ge-4-21-ur01.ro 68.87.96.6       3 u   56   64  177    7.197  -1934.4 1231.28

Thu Mar 16 04:41:20 EST 2006
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 louie.udel.edu  18.145.0.30      2 u    6   64  377   17.152  -5982.6 1930.60
 cudns.cit.corne 192.43.244.18    2 u    4   64  377   30.530  -4349.4 2327.72
 ge-4-21-ur01.ro 68.87.96.6       3 u    1   64  377    7.281  -5335.2 1925.57

Thu Mar 16 04:45:00 EST 2006
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 louie.udel.edu  18.145.0.30      2 u   34   64  377   16.998  -9923.9 2853.67
 cudns.cit.corne 192.43.244.18    2 u   31   64  377   31.092  -8410.4 2014.72
 ge-4-21-ur01.ro 68.87.96.6       3 u   30   64  377    7.281  -5335.2 3488.40

Now ntpdate has some catching up to do:

# /etc/init.d/ntp-server stop
Stopping NTP server: ntpd.
# ntpdate louie.udel.edu cudns.cit.cornell.edu 68.87.136.45
16 Mar 04:45:38 ntpdate[4844]: step time server 128.4.40.12 offset -11.689745 
sec
# ntpdate louie.udel.edu cudns.cit.cornell.edu 68.87.136.45
16 Mar 04:45:41 ntpdate[4850]: adjust time server 128.4.40.12 offset -0.058759 
sec

At this point, I have to shut down ntpd and run ntpdate once a day.
ntpd is just broken.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Andrew.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages ntp-server depends on:
ii  ntp                  1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1 Network Time Protocol: network uti
ii  ntp-simple           1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1 Network Time Protocol: daemon for 

ntp-server recommends no packages.

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