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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:50:50 -0700
From:      mike <mike@coloradosurf.com>
To:        Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: named dying on INSIST
Message-ID:  <20010327155050.A15517@coloradosurf.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010327153414.00b132e0@officeonweb.net>; from piechota@argolis.org on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:34:14PM -0700
References:  <3.0.6.32.20010327153414.00b132e0@officeonweb.net>

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Matt,

Thanks for your reply,


> 
> My machine does this constantly.  Are you also getting "microuptime wnet
> backwards" messages on the consle/syslog?  
Well, this machine is remote, I'll have to dig through /var/log/messages
(which mirrors /dev/console) but I don't think so.

> Near as I can tell, my
> motherboard has an wonky clock chip, which FreeBSD/BIND can't handle.  Odd
> thing is it never had issues until the FreeBSD 4.x series, I can't
> remember my 3.x machine ever having this problem.
That figures, this is a 3.5 Stable machine (when probems are found to have 
consistency, problems are often solved ;). This is the first time it's 
happened (but it's only been up 8-9 months). 

> There's a few PRs is
> the GNATS database concerning this.  Hopefully your problem will be solved
> by one of the fixes mentioned.  It didn't fix mine.  (I have an Open PR on
> it).  Search on "microuptime" will find most of them (some are closed
> already, so they won't automatically show up in the search).
I'll have to look into it. Thanks.

> >         INSIST(now.tv_usec >= 0 && now.tv_usec < 1000000);
> 
> This is completely right.  The microseconds value of the uptime should
> never be outside of that range.  Unfortunately, all is not well my
> machine.
Doh!



mike

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