In message <1292020824.24370.43.ca...@localhost>, Paul Sheer writes: >> Pray tell what authority you have for this pronouncement ? > >I am totally confused where you got this idea that most of the worlds >servers tick over in sync, [...]
Ahh, this "misconception" is probably based on the fact that you never have heard about the "NTP" project ? >Finally, because NTP can easily be spoofed, many admins explicitly >DISABLE it fearing the consequence of one's server time suddenly reading >1970-01-01 or something wierd. Ohh, so you have heard of NTP, but have zero clue about how to configure it correctly ? Makes sense... I pity your customers. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
