Re: What's going on with NTP?

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 5:35 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

I have two FreeBSD servers where the NTP daemons are using double digit CPU percentages today rather than the usual 0.01%. Restarting them didn't help.

The clock on my Android phone is five hours slow. (It's not the time zone, I checked that.)

Is this just my special Christmas present, or are there screwed up NTP servers?

The old NTP server in FreeBSD have a bug that allow to use it for reflexion DOS attacks: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-November/046822.html Regards, Olivier