{"id":260,"date":"2010-05-09T20:08:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T19:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2010-05-09T20:08:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T19:08:53","slug":"ntp-suxx0r-d00d5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"ntp suxx0r, d00d5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ddj.com\/embedded-systems\/223000197\">This Dr Dobbs article <\/a>caught my eye when I was looking for a Windows Mobile NTP client (long story). I read it with some alarm as the introduction implies that they&#8217;ve found a fundamental problem with NTP and then became steadily more incredulous as I read the article to find that they were talking about periodically running &#8211; on mission-critical systems, of course &#8211; ntpclient to synchronise with a single time source.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve basically written up alarmist crap that&#8217;s worthy of the Daily Mail about the fact that if you use what&#8217;s essentially a test program against a single not-particularly-stable server it doesn&#8217;t work very well. Big surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone really use ntpclient like that on a critical production server? I&#8217;d have thought configuring ntpd with a few ntp servers wasn&#8217;t exactly hard &#8211; there&#8217;s even a pretty noddy <a href=\"http:\/\/kbase.redhat.com\/faq\/docs\/DOC-2148\">Redhat howto for it<\/a>. And yet the title of the article (and especially the introduction) suggest that they&#8217;ve uncovered a fundamental problem with ntp.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m left wondering if timekeeper is a Dr Dobbs product, to be honest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Dr Dobbs article caught my eye when I was looking for a Windows Mobile NTP client (long story). I read it with some alarm as the introduction implies that they&#8217;ve found a fundamental problem with NTP and then became steadily more incredulous as I read the article to find that they were talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}