[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#484974: The requested harmfull behavior

[Henk van de Kamer]

Hi,

Today I upgraded -- till today I created my own security fixes for the 
Sarge packages -- one of my servers and have been badly bitten by this 
bug. The system has five virtual aliases which resulted in:


hoefnix2:~# grep -E 'ntp' /var/log/syslog
Dec 19 10:07:05 hoefnix2 ntpdate[3801]: step time server 85.214.111.97 
offset -3600.199028 sec
Dec 19 09:07:05 hoefnix2 ntpdate[3772]: step time server 81.169.180.23 
offset -3600.193623 sec
Dec 19 08:07:06 hoefnix2 ntpdate[3736]: step time server 131.234.137.24 
offset -3600.191320 sec
Dec 19 07:07:07 hoefnix2 ntpdate[3760]: step time server 131.234.137.24 
offset -3600.189649 sec
Dec 19 06:07:09 hoefnix2 ntpdate[3748]: step time server 85.214.111.97 
offset -3600.198522 sec
Dec 19 05:07:09 hoefnix2 ntpdate[3816]: step time server 88.198.46.111 
offset -3600.190780 sec


I suspect that every instance didn't realize that another had already 
corrected the summer/winter time conversion. Yes I do'nt want to run my 
servers in the confusing UTC time. I'm human, not a computer :). So the 
time has to be the time I see on the clocks at my desk. Also customers 
report events at that time and I don't want to think about adding or 
substracting one or two hours in logs.

Henk van de Kamer