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Submitted by Tmack on Saturday June 30, 2012 @02:41PM

Tmack writes "The last time we had a leapsecond, sysadmins were taken a bit by surprise when a random smattering of systems locked up (including Slashdot itself) due to a kernel bug causing a race condition specific to the way leapseconds are handled/notified by ntp. The vulnerable kernel versions (prior to 2.6.29) are still common amongst older versions of popular distributions (Debian Lenny, RHEL/Centos 5) and embeded/black-box style appliances (Switches, load balancers, spam filters/email gateways, NAS devices, etc). Several vendors have released patches and bulletins about the possibility of a repeat of last time. Are you/your team/company ready? Are you upgraded or are you going to bypass this by simply turning off NTP for the weekend?"
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this is more widespread actually (Score:1)

by regardtv (979502) writes:

Seems current kernels are also being affected actually: http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today [serverfault.com] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1203.1/04598.html [indiana.edu]

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this is more widespread actually (Score:1)