On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 03:36:07AM +0200, Peter Hessler wrote:
> On 2012 May 13 (Sun) at 01:48:51 +0200 (+0200), Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> :I think a lot of the problematic servers run openntpd.
> 
> Please do not spread FUD.

The last released portable version of openntpd is 6 years old, and
doesn't call ntp_adjtime() / adjtimex(), but just calls adjtime().
As a result the kernel does not compensate for the drift of the
clock.

If you have a clock with a drift of 100 ppm, which is very normal,
and a poll interval of 1024 seconds, you're basicly off 102.4 ms
every 1024 seconds.

I understand that a patch has been available for a very long time,
at least since 2005 from what I can find, but clearly wasn't used
everywhere, and that the upstream portable branch now has a
simular patch applied.  But it's still not released.


Kurt

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