REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Guilherme Ganascim guilherme.ganascim at persistelecom.com.br
Wed Jul 1 01:08:28 UTC 2015


I had problems with Leap Second with mikrotik in versions 6.29.1, 6.28, 6.5 and other versions.

Configured NTP Client in all of them.

Anyone else had this problem?


> On Jun 19, 2015, at 19:30, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 19 June 2015 at 23:58, Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
> 
>> Bad idea.
>> 
>> When restarting ntpd your clocks will likely be off by a second, which
>> will cause a backward step, which will force the problem you claim to be
>> avoiding.
>> 
> 
> If you are afraid that your routers will crash due to the leapsecond, then
> it would help to disable the thing that you think will crash them. Even if
> the router crashes when you enable it later on. Because then you can have
> one router crash at a time and have it happen in a service window where you
> are ready for it. Instead of having all routers in your whole network crash
> at exactly the same time.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Baldur




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