Leap Second

Tue Jul 2 14:43:19 UTC 2013

My S2s are Symmetricoms, so we may have a winner here.

Cheers!

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Måns Nilsson <mansaxel at besserwisser.org>wrote:

> Subject: Leap Second Date: Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:23:58AM -0400 Quoting
> Todd S (todd at borked.ca):
> > We found we got leap seconds added on some systems over the weekend.
>  There
> > were no leap seconds planned (
> > http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/earth-orientation/leap-second-announcement
> ),
> > however some of our systems got one.
> >
> > We run our own s2/s3/s4 system, with only the s2s going to the Internet.
> >  We have about 20 servers defined there, but looking through the logs, I
> > can't figure out which one(s) may have been advertising the leap second.
>  I
> > went through all our systems on Friday and Saturday to check for the leap
> > bit, but had nothing, so it must have come out on Sunday.
> >
> > Anyone else run in to this, or have any further intel about servers that
> > advertised the leap second?
>
> We did get an advisory from Infoblox about a bug in "NTP servers based
> on open source NTP" that would do just that. For Infoblox NIOS there
> was a hotfix, and Symmetricom also has a patch out.
>
> --
> Måns Nilsson     primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
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> I think my career is ruined!
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