** Changed in: gnome-panel
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250231
Title:
gnome-panel NTP time sync allows me to enter random URLs without
complaining
Status in Desktop panel for GNOME:
Won't Fix
Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
1. right click the time/date in gnome
2. select "Adjust time/date"
3. click the "unlock" and enter admin password so you can change time
4. select "keep synchronized with internet servers"
5. (now install NTP support if you didn't already have it, maybe reboot is
necessary I don't remember)
6. click the "select servers" button
7. click "add" and enter "www.cnn.com"
Actual:
It doesn't complain at all. User thinks his time is now being synchronized
with the specified server.
Expected:
It should print an error because www.cnn.com is not a valid NTP server.
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I actually had a lot of problems with this because I didn't enter
www.cnn.com but I entered ntp.somehost.com (which some other webpage
told me was valid) and since GNOME didn't complain I thought
everything was working just fine. Later I discovered that the time was
different on machines which synced to the same NTP server and it
turned out that this NTP server was offline.
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