On Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 1:22 PM, AlbyVA wrote: > > I've been planning to add something to to the system so it checks for > > correct leap second announcements, it looks like I shouldn't wait until the > > next leap second before doing it. > > Can you link those findings to something on each person's "Your Servers" page? > Maybe right under their current score.
Yes, that and/or the "user profile". Most of the changes is in doing the tracking and storing the data[1]. For actually having the score affected I have to figure out what to believe; I need the system to at least not fail because of lack of human intervention/configuration. My thinking right now (after not spending too many brain cycles on it) is that the system would have to stash the servers in a "probably wrong" queue and then when there's enough data to say for sure do whatever needs to be done. If it's a short term problem I am also not sure how much we can mitigate the problem anyway by dinging those servers. SNTP clients won't care (generally at least). NTP daemons will already have picked their servers, so it'll only mean something to the relatively few servers starting up during the hopefully brief period of wrongness. The most productive action will likely be emailing the server operators to tell them that the leap flag is wrong. Suggestions welcome, feel free to add notes or new issues in the issue tracker: https://github.com/abh/ntppool/issues Ask [1] https://github.com/abh/ntppool/issues/55 https://github.com/abh/ntppool/issues/54 -- http://askask.com/ | http://www.ntppool.org/ > > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > Ask > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Martin Burnicki > > > Subject: Fwd: WARNING: someone's faking a leap second tonight > > > Date: August 2, 2012 3:35:31 AM PDT > > > To: Ask Bjørn Hansen > > > > > > Hi Ask, > > > > > > there seems to be an NTP bug related to leap seconds, where a leap second > > > may be inserted at the end of *any* month. > > > > > > Have you seen this thread in the NTP newsgroup? It is split over 2 > > > archives in the questions mailing list archive since it starts end of > > > July and continues now in August: > > > http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-July/033605.html > > > http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033611.html > > > > > > Here is a comment from Dave Hart telling that quite some pool servers are > > > actually affected since they are still announcing a leap second: > > > http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033649.html > > > > > > One of my comments tries to explain one possible reason why this may > > > happen, based on our observations: > > > http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033650.html > > > > > > I would have liked to send this also to the pool mailing list, but I > > > hadn't been subscribed to this list, yet. I just have subscribed an hour > > > or so ago, but have not yet received a confirmation email. So maybe you > > > can forward this to the pool list. > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pool mailing list > > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool > _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
