[gpfsug-discuss] NTP leap-second can take out GPFS server - it just has

[Orlando Richards]

Hi Jez,

We've had a few issues with the leap second - but so far it has been 
isolated to redhat 6.2 systems.

What OS are you running on your affected server?

Cheers,
Orlando.


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.
>
> Jez
>
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