Tim Waugh wrote:
> I think that some of the timeout handling in VNC is quite sensitive to
> having things like NTP running.  I have seen the idle timeout trigger
> after only a few seconds' use, and have also seen the deferUpdate
> timeout completely fail to trigger.
>
> My theory is that NTP is stepping the time back when I've seen this
> happen, and that there are incautious comparisons in the timeout code
> in VNC.

Correct NTP clents will never step time backwards. The technique used to
adjust a clock which is fast is to repeatedly stop the clock for very short
periods of time until the time is correct. If the adjustmant needed is large
then this is done over a long period of time. If the adjustment is very
large then the client will not adust the clock at all. I really doubt an NTP
client is causing your propbelm (if it is than it's a really badly broken
client).

John Wilson
The Wilson Partnership
http://www.wilson.co.uk
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