The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready?

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 30, 2012 @10:55AM from the about-time dept.

Tmack writes "The last time we had a leap second, sysadmins were taken a bit by surprise when a random smattering of systems locked up (including Slashdot itself) due to a kernel bug causing a race condition specific to the way leap seconds are handled/notified by ntp. The vulnerable kernel versions (prior to 2.6.29) are still common amongst older versions of popular distributions (Debian Lenny, RHEL/CentOS 5) and embedded/black-box style appliances (Switches, load balancers, spam filters/email gateways, NAS devices, etc). Several vendors have released patches and bulletins about the possibility of a repeat of last time. Are you/your team/company ready? Are you upgraded, or are you going to bypass this by simply turning off NTP for the weekend?" Update: 07/01 03:14 GMT by S : ZeroPaid reports that this issue took down the Pirate Bay for a few hours.

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Haha by ArchieBunker · 2012-06-30 11:14 · Score: -1, Troll

Enjoy your free operating system that was stopped by an extra second.

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1. Re:Haha by ArchieBunker · 2012-06-30 11:46 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Yeah it had the wrong time but did not freeze up. What's your excuse?
  
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