ntpd should ignore the leap second flag from upstream servers when
"leapfile" is configured, but you should update the leap second file
before it expires (twice a year)

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP#Section_6.14.


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:34 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The NTP servers for my environment sync off of 0-3.us.pool.ntp.org and we 
> experienced a leap second jump on all of our servers:
>
> 2012-12-31T23:59:59.730993+00:00 localhost kernel: Clock: inserting leap 
> second 23:59:60 UTC
>
> This triggered on some systems without an upgraded kernel the linux hrtimer() 
> bug which caused CPU spikes across my environments.  Happy New Years!
>
> If I understand it correctly the problem is that certain pool servers are 
> incorrectly reporting the leap=01 incorrectly? As the latest IERS bulletin 
> specifies a leap second was NOT to be introduced.
>
> What is the recommended approach to ensure this doesn't incorrectly happen 
> again?  Once a server receives a leap=01 from an upstream server will it leap 
> no matter what?
>
> David, would it be possible to get the flags your sending to ntpq to check 
> for the leap second flag in your program so we can run them using ntpq on a 
> linux system ? I'd like to setup a monitor for this condition in our 
> environment.
>
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