Le 02/09/2012 19:49, Ask Bjørn Hansen a écrit :
On Sep 2, 2012, at 9:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Does kinda show that it isn't trivial to get this right all the time...
With a notable percentage of the NTP servers always indicating leap
it's another instance of "Don't believe everything the internet says."
While true, I think that's missing the point Warner was making: If people
running a time server can't reliably get the time server itself to manage the
leap seconds properly, what are the odds really that everyone else will get it
right – ever.
(As a side note I am planning to have the NTP Pool system monitor the leap
flag, though it's not clear how much that will really help:
https://github.com/abh/ntppool/issues/55 )
Abusive servers could be removed from the pool. It won't help those
already using them, but could prevent infection from spreading to new
clients with old versions of ntpd. Just as a test I started up a server
with 5 of the mavericks as configured servers and verified that they
were propagating the bad leap indicators. My version of ntp did not get
infected, and is not propagating bad packets to downstream clients.
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