[Summary] Memory fault with ntpdate & ntpq on 5.1A

From: Nicolas.Courtel@regis-dgac.net
Date: Fri Sep 17 2004 - 13:23:23 EDT


Hello managers,

No reply from the list, I got a reply from HP support, that there is a
patch for this problem: T64KIT0022812-V51AB24-ES-20040630.tar

This patch will be included in 5.1A patchkit 7 wherever it will be
released, and even better it works fine!

-- 
Nicolas
nicolas.courtel@regis-dgac.net writes:
> Hello managers,
> 
> If for some reasons the date of an NTP client is much ahead related to
> the server's date, both "ntpq -p" and "ntpdate -q server" get into a
> Memory fault and dump core.
> 
> After a short investigation, I found out that this happens on 5.1A and
> not on 4.0F (we don't use 5.1B), when the client's date is more than
> 65536 (or maybe 65535, something close to 2^16 anyway) seconds ahead of
> the server's. Strangely enough, there is no problem when the client is
> very late compared to the server, even by millions of seconds.
> 
> I haven't found any information about this either in the patchkit 6 or
> on the Web. Does anyone have any clue about this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas


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