On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 15:29, Dario Lesca wrote:
> Hello!
> I have a question: what means the message "Warning: time of day goes back
> ..." show from ping command?
>
> [root@dario /root]# ping 127.0.0.1
> PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) from 127.0.0.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
> Warning: time of day goes back, taking countermeasures.
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=697 usec
> .....
I've seen this when the clock of the destination machine is ahead of the
source machine by any length of time. When the machines are properly
sync'd timewise, this message goes away.
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