NTP problems - (one) root cause

Tue Nov 20 19:24:04 UTC 2012

A subscriber to Outages who wishes to remain nameless passes along the
pointer to this story: Apparently, either tick or tock got rebooted 
yesterday, and came up with its local clock set to 2000.  And lots of
people believed it.

  https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?n&storyid=14548

Did you believe it?  Why?

(Yes, those are just rhetorical questions, intended to make people examine
their NTP architecture more closely.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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