[ntp:questions] Leap Second

morsupil michael.froment at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 09:22:35 UTC 2008


On Dec 3, 10:09 am, dwmal... at maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) wrote:
> morsupil <michael.from... at gmail.com> writes:
> >It seems that since the LI flag is set on some servers, some NTP
> >clients problems.
> >Here is a problem reported by a nagios server on some ntp servers:
> >/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ntp -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >NTP CRITICAL: Offset unknown
>
> The first link I see when I search for check_ntp says it is depricated.
> Could it be a bug in check_ntp? Are the servers running an unusual ntp
> daemon?
>
> >I also see since 3 day problems on some Set Top Box that doesn't
> >understand the answer from an ntpd server causing those STB hanging at
> >boot... The workaround solution for the moment is to shutdown
> >synchronisation with Public NTP server pool... too bad...
>
> You probably need to complain to the STB vendor... Who makes them?
> Any idea who did the NTP implementation?
>
>         David.

The server is running an usual ntp daemon provide by debian etch.
I think that the check_ntp in nagios is deprecated... I've check with
a newer version and there is no problem...
It is a Sagem STB but I dont know who makes the NTP implementation...

Kind regards

Michael




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