On 01/08/12 10:28, Marco Marongiu wrote: > I tried to collect some information around the globe, but with scarce/no > feedback. I am *suspecting* that this could be a rather imaginative > attempt to DOS worldwide. > > Anyway, a colleague of mine is now hunting down some upstreams that > faked the leap second. If we get something out of his research, I'll let > you know.
While my colleague is working with a stratum 1 timekeeper to investigate this better, I called the people at INRiM in Italy -- INRiM is the institution responsible for the official Italian time (http://www.inrim.it/index.shtml). Mr.Pettiti confirmed there was *no* leap second scheduled yesterday (as we all suspected, right?), so that is definitely a fake. It may well be a DOS attempt, but as another colleague of mine suggests, it could also be a bug in some upstream servers, which didn't disarm the leap second after June 30th, and propagated it again yesterday. Question now is: assuming those servers were running ntpd, was such a bug reported at some point? Ciao -- bronto _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
