[ntp:questions] Why can't clocks do inital synchronization?

Folkert van Heusden folkert at vanheusden.com
Tue Jan 6 17:30:45 UTC 2009


> I don't recall ever seeing a report of NTP causing problems with normal 
> operations.

Sorry for being anal on this but:
Well almost: certain versions of the linux kernel under certain specific
conditions would panic when ntp introduces a leap second.
http://markmail.org/message/dhm5byrbfcarpiet?q=leap+second+list:org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Ok it's a bug in the linux kernel but it is only triggered by ntp.


Folkert van Heusden

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