NTP Issues Today

Mon Nov 19 23:50:28 UTC 2012

On 11/19/12 6:32 PM, "Scott Weeks" <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
>--- vanwolfe at gmail.com wrote:
>From: Van Wolfe <vanwolfe at gmail.com>
>
>Did anyone else experience issues with NTP today?  We had our server
>times update to the year 2000 at around 3:30 MT, then revert back to 2012.
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>You need to provide more information.  For example, what NTP
>source are you using?
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--- chaynes at centracomm.net wrote:
From: Clay Haynes <chaynes at centracomm.net>

I can confirm this had happened on one of my test servers - it was
pointing to tick.usno.navy.mil and tock.usno.navy.mil at the time.
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That's not a very diverse set of NTP servers.  In the future if 
you think it might be an outage, you might try on the 'outages' 
list: http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

For this one, you might ask the server contact if there was a
problem: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/TockUsnoNavyMil

That assumes you've done your homework first and made sure it
wasn't something in your network.

scott