[ntp:hackers] What happened to old sample checking?
David Mills
mills at udel.edu
Fri May 1 15:50:24 UTC 2009
Brian,
In the mitigation rules update the block you found was indeed lost; it
has been replaces.
Dave
Brian Utterback wrote:
> Some time ago, Dave added a check in clock_update such that is the
> sample being used to update the clock was older than the last sample
> used to update the clock, the older sample would be ignored. This
> ensured that the samples applied to the clock would be in
> chronological order.
>
> Looking at clock_update recently, I see that this check is no longer
> in place. It was there in p161 and is not there in p167.
>
> So, I guess this is really a question for Dave. What happened? Was the
> check moved somewhere else, or did you decide that it wasn't working
> right, or that it was not the right thing to do? I am just trying to
> understand what happened.
>
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