[ntp:questions] Question about 2008 leap second

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sun Jan 4 13:40:11 UTC 2009


Evandro Menezes wrote:
> On Jan 3, 1:00 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> You might complain to Red Hat and ask them to fix their server.  Other
>> than that, your only other remedy is to configure properly working
>> servers in sufficient number to outvote the bad guys.
>>
>> The leap second was a problem last time and I suspect it will be a
>> problem again in a few years!
> 
> That's the thing, clock3.redhat.com was one of the five NTP servers
> configured.  Yet, it was NOT outvoted by the other servers, 3 stratum
> 2 and 1 stratum 3, all handled the leap second correctly.

In that case, I think a formal bug report is in order; with log files if 
you have them.




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