[LEAPSECS] more poison in the NTP pool

[Paul Sheer]

> > 

> > previously i proposed that any code that measures a fail-timeout make

> > that timeout 1000ms longer whenever  t % 86400  is near zero

> 

> I assume that you mean near 0 or near 86400 since % is unsigned.

> 



yes

code example posted previously:

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2011-October/thread.html#3295




> > this pattern would duck most bugs

> 

> With timeouts, yes.  With other things, not so much...

> 



as a thought-experiment, i conjecture that it would have prevented all
the system failures reported in the media in the last few leap seconds

am i close?




> > these bogus advertisements seem like another good reason to implement

> > this

> 

> It says a lot about the robustness of leap seconds...

> 



yep


-paul