A subscriber to Outages who wishes to remain nameless passes along the pointer to this story: Apparently, either tick or tock got rebooted yesterday, and came up with its local clock set to 2000. And lots of people believed it. https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?n&storyid=14548 Did you believe it? Why? (Yes, those are just rhetorical questions, intended to make people examine their NTP architecture more closely. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274