[ntp:questions] Should ntpd log failure to syslog?

Maarten Wiltink maarten at kittensandcats.net
Fri Dec 12 08:40:58 UTC 2008


"Hal Murray" <hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net> wrote in message
news:FPadnSquvYLtjt_UnZ2dnUVZ_uadnZ2d at megapath.net...

>> I think you are assuming here, that the servers will fail one by one
>> with no one noticing or correcting the problems.  This scenario seems
>> rather unlikely to me.  Any publicly available server has hundreds or
>> even thousands of clients keeping an eye on it.  If it goes belly up
>> the failure will surely be noticed.
>
> What if the "failure" is the company going out of business
> or a policy change or ...

...Or a change of IP address. Or what I think might be the worst one:
your own NTP server accidentally running into a transient 1001-second
offset and exiting. A year ago.

(Sure it's unlikely. But how do you *know*? Answer: through monitoring.)

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink




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