[email protected] said: > I semi-regularly get mails from people who had their time set to 1970 or > some similar Very Wrong time, so I think to the extent possible no servers > should be returning any timestamps until they're reasonably sure the time > isn't Very Wrong.
What software are they using? The reference ntpd package returns the system time with the leap bits set to 3 until it figures out the right time. The system time is whatever the startup scripts set it to, usually from the RTC/TOY clock. It might be interesting to log all the bad responses that you get so you can scan them when questions like this come up. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
