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The biggest annoyance with NTPD is that it will give up synching if the time delta is too large. It just shows that the software was primarily coded to be a ser
by zimbatm 12y ago
The biggest annoyance with NTPD is that it will give up synching if the time delta is too large. It just shows that the software was primarily coded to be a server. If you just use NTPD to keep your machine times in sync `chrony` is a better solution for now.
- feld 12y agoThere's a setting for that. tinker panic 0
- nullc 12y agoGiving up is also a security feature. Whats more likely? your system clock sped up by a factor of 2 and everything kept working, or some guy on your network is trying to dork around with your time so he can bypass some time limited authentication? Of course, the software needs to correctly handle cases like suspend where the time may honestly need to step. If it doesn't thats a short coming of the software, not a reason to eagerly make "presumed impossible" leaps just because some unauthenticated packets on the network tell you to.