[LEAPSECS] Bulletin C and all that

[Martin Burnicki]

Harlan,

Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Yes, there have been bugs (and shortcomings, or at least trade-offs)
> with leapsecond propagation in the NTP codebase over the decades.
>
> Upgrading software is a good thing.
>
> That can be "ancient release + patches" or "current supported software
> that has patches".
>
> Please see http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2717320 for more
> information.

Thanks, this is a very nice overview on the history of NTP.

Anyway, we need to distinguish if there's a bug in the NTP code, or if 
ntpd just receives wrong data from faulty refclocks.

Martin