Too bad they don't explain the problem in any detail. Sure the "root cause" was bad data from time.apple.com but it would be interesting, and educational, to see how the dominoes fell in their massive infrastructure.
/tvb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Allen" <s...@ucolick.org> To: "Leap Second Discussion List" <leapsecs@leapsecond.com> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:11 PM Subject: [LEAPSECS] New Years financial trouble > Some financial transaction processor (who remains nameless) had their > servers go into livelock at the beginning of the year. > > http://status.simple.com/2013/01/07/nye-postmortem/ > > Blame for the bogus leap flag is thrown at the NTP server run by Apple. > > -- > Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) > UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 > 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 > Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m > _______________________________________________ > LEAPSECS mailing list > LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs > _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
