Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:49:58 +1000 (EST) From: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@nlc.net.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: NTP daemon and Y2K issues Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908231738420.27656-100000@nhj.nlc.net.au>
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I noticed that -stable is running xntpd 3.4e and possible -current is the
same (although I can't check at the moment). The following was sent to a
sysadmin mailing list (SAGE-AU).
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Just when you thought it was safe ...
For those of you feeling quite happy running XNTP version 3.x, you might
want to upgrade to the latest NTP (currently 4.0.97) to be squeaky clean
with your Y2K team. There have been changes made to the source after the
AT&T Labs "Freeware Y2K Certification Project" had been at it.
>From the file NOTES.y2kfixes in the top level source directory:
1) Errors were found in improper use of tm_year within struct tm,
calculations that did not support year 2000 as a leap year (it truly is,
despite any unchanged comments remaining in the NTP source), and some
incorrect date calculations, while not traditional Y2K errors, would
break in the year 2000.
2) include/ntpd.h
Added some definitions and documentation about the right way of doing
things. Definitions used by most, if not all, of the Y2K repairs.
Not huge changes, but there probably will be a problem. For those that
just want to check the relevant files, you can check the online CVS
repository at http://maccarony.ntp.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ntp/
Please note that the SAGE-AU mirror only has XNTP 3.x, so you will need
to go further afield until NTP 4 is being mirrored.
John Warburton
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