Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:33:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "sysadmin@mfn.org" <sysadmin@mfn.org> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anything Special about 1930? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808222132100.20446-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BDCC34.A1E8DBC0@noc.mfn.org>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, sysadmin@mfn.org wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Once again, I present with a tale of the weird: My secondary
> nameserver has always had the wrong time, but since it does
> nothing but DNS, I've never bothered to correct it: until yesterday.
>
> Like all of our machines, it runs ntpdate -sb on bootup and
> at midnight every day. Nevertheless, heres ns2's "date":
>
> jb214@ns2$ date
>
> Sat Aug 2 08:57:13 CDT 1930
>
> And here are the relevent log entries:
>
> Aug 1 19:06:58 ns2 ntpdate[200]: step time server 192.52.106.6 offset 0.001704
> Aug 1 19:09:25 ns2 named[85]: secondary zone "mfn.org" time warp
> Aug 1 19:47:57 ns2 named[85]: secondary zone "mfn.org" time warp
> Aug 1 20:04:27 ns2 named[85]: secondary zone "mfn.org" time warp
> Aug 1 20:37:54 ns2 named[85]: secondary zone "mfn.org" time warp
I think named reports this when the zone file's date seems to go backwards
in time.
> Since NS2 is "headless" and I'll leave this as is if I can't resolve
> it *easily*, but I'm puzzled. Why won't ntpdate correct the date? Also,
> the time is off, even though I have the time zone set and the daemon
> running:
You might check the system log. The system battery may be dead.
> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> 0 ?? DLs 0:00.57 (swapper)
> 1 ?? IWs 0:00.22 /sbin/init --
> 2 ?? DL 0:00.79 (pagedaemon)
> 3 ?? DL 0:01.87 (vmdaemon)
> 4 ?? DL 0:14.74 (update)
> 23 ?? IWs 0:00.06 adjkerntz -i
> 80 ?? Ss 0:04.79
^^^^^^^^^^^ anonymous process??
> Go figure? While I'm at it, what does the "time warp" message
> actually *mean*? I can *see* that the time is wrong, but how
> is it that named knows something is wrong? And precisely
> what is it that named is trying to tell me?
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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