Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP

2006-01-02 Thread Charley Kline
Interesting. ntp-2.gw.uiuc.edu is an old Cisco box running 12.0(27). I wasn't around for the leap second, so I don't have any information about what happened, and its log is completely silent. FWIW, its clock and NTP process appear fine now. It's synced off our GPS clock, which may be a

Re: Leap second reminder

2006-01-01 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2005-12-31 17:18 -0500), Deepak Jain wrote: Linux seemed to survive happily too [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% dmesg|tail -n1 Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC Curious though that not so many people who've I asked got these messages, only explanation I can think

Leap second reminder

2005-12-31 Thread Kevin Day
Just a reminder, at midnight UTC there's a leap second added to most time systems. Some time systems will stop the clock at 23:59:59.99 for 1 second, some will display 23:59:60 for a second. Since the last leap second (1998), leap second aware time keeping systems(NTP, GPS, etc)

Re: Leap second reminder

2005-12-31 Thread Gerry Boudreaux
On Dec 31, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Kevin Day wrote: Just a reminder, at midnight UTC there's a leap second added to most time systems. Some time systems will stop the clock at 23:59:59.99 for 1 second, some will display 23:59:60 for a second. Since the last leap second (1998), leap

Re: Leap second reminder

2005-12-31 Thread Deepak Jain
Cisco seems happy as well. (adding leap second, leap second occurs at), etc. sh ntp status Clock is synchronized (adding leap second), stratum 2, reference is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nominal freq is 250. Hz, actual freq is 249.9975 Hz, precision is 2**18 reference time is C7617E39.3A0B3D8C

Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP

2005-12-31 Thread Kevin Day
Last NTP spam: I'm by no means an NTP expert, if anyone else is, please pipe up. About 30 minutes before the leap second should have occurred, several of our systems reported xntpd[13742]: time reset 0.958385 s, which was really strange. They moved the wrong direction, and they did it

Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP

2005-12-31 Thread Roy
Kevin Day wrote: Last NTP spam: I'm by no means an NTP expert, if anyone else is, please pipe up. About 30 minutes before the leap second should have occurred, several of our systems reported xntpd[13742]: time reset 0.958385 s, which was really strange. They moved the wrong direction,

Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP

2005-12-31 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:06:59PM -0800, Roy wrote: Kevin Day wrote: Last NTP spam: I'm by no means an NTP expert, if anyone else is, please pipe up. About 30 minutes before the leap second should have occurred, several of our systems reported xntpd[13742]: time reset 0.958385 s,

Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP

2005-12-31 Thread Fergie
Peter Lothberg's Post-Soviet-Era cesium clock. :-) Yes! Cheers! - ferg -- Jared Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I suggest changing your clock sources to something more reliable if you're seeing folks that are not diligent stratum-1 sources. I suggest this as a source:

Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: While I can't say anything broke on our network as a result of the leap second, a good percentage of our gear lost NTP sync or had some kind of NTP problem around midnight UTC. You may want to check your NTP status at some point, in

Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP

2005-12-31 Thread Michael Loftis
--On December 31, 2005 6:57:45 PM -0600 Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I can't say anything broke on our network as a result of the leap second, a good percentage of our gear lost NTP sync or had some kind of NTP problem around midnight UTC. You may want to check your NTP