[ntp:hackers] smearing the leap second

Danny Mayer mayer at pdmconsulting.net
Mon Jun 22 15:48:18 UTC 2015


On 6/20/2015 9:02 PM, Brian Utterback wrote:
> On 6/20/2015 3:49 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote:
>> I've put Terje's message and a number of questions and other thoughts
>> at:
>>
>>   http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/LeapSmearForNTPv4
>>
>> I think we may need to consider some other items as well, and I might
>> have an idea about encoding the smear completely in the refid.
> 
> I would be concerned about losing the actual functionality of the refid
> if we started monkeying with it.
> 
Unfortunately the RefID is broken anyway. It's a bit of a mess and will
need to be sorted out properly. Having it depend on the IP address of
the sending server for forming a RefID was the wrong approach anyway.

Danny



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