On 02/07/12 14:03, Jez Tucker wrote: > Just had a lovely one. > > As I’m, sure all of you are aware by now, there’s been much fun with > some of the NTP Stratum 1 servers not correctly accounting for the > leap-seocnd last night. > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167588/Leap-second-2012-Websites-crash-time-hiccup-caused-online-chaos.html?ito=feeds-newsxml > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9369671/Leap-second-brings-down-top-websites.html > > You may wish to turn off ntp on your servers and correct your NTP to > trusted servers. > > A clock skew from ntp.pool.org just took out one of our servers and the > node was expelled from the cluster. Hum, not sure I would run my production servers directly off something from ntp.pool.org, I would at least put a local server in between. Not notice any problems here, but then we are running latest RHEL 5.8 and latest IBM Storage Manager (10.83) :-) JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +441382-386998 Storage Administrator, College of Life Sciences University of Dundee, DD1 5EH The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096